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SuperMESH3 Power MOSFETs 30/9/2008

STMicroelectronics (ST) has increased the ruggedness, switching performance and efficiency of power MOSFETs for lighting ballasts, where they are used in the PFC and Half Bridge sections, as well as in switching power supplies. The use of SuperMESH3 technology with l....

Authentication chip with integrated temperature sensor 26/9/2008

Infineon Technologies has introduced a chip that uses asymmetric authentication featuring elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and integrated temperature sensor that can be used by battery and electronics manufacturers to detect unauthorised accessories and after....

Highly integrated tuner IC 23/9/2008

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced the MAX2163A, a silicon tuner for use in 1- and 3-segment, ISDB-T applications operating in the VHF and UHF frequency bands. Fabricated using Maxim's SiGe BiCMOS process, this device offers the performance benefits of Si....

Dual buck converter 23/9/2008

By combining two optimally sized step-down converters in a single 3x4mm package, the AAT2789 from AnalogicTech provides designers with efficient power conversion in a form factor designed to reduce system cost and provide reduced board space. The AAT2789 i....

Embedded Linux and FPGAs 22/9/2008

LynuxWorks and Impulse Accelerated Technologies have announced technical collaboration, libraries and reference examples combining the Impulse C-to-FPGA tools with LynuxWorks BlueCat operating system. This enables softwa....

High-frequency PCB co-design 22/9/2008

AWR and Mentor Graphics have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics. This new synergy of design flow between AWR and Mentor Graphics obsoletes file translation between Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise design environ....

AdvancedTCA CPU blade 22/9/2008

ADLINK Technology has introduced the aTCA-6900, an AdvancedTCA (ATCA) CPU blade featuring the Intel 5100 chipset, two Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors and two PICMG standard AMC bays for high computing performance and high speed I/O expansion. With the Intel ....

Elonics' multi-band, multi-standard receiver chip readies for launch 19/9/2008

Elonics, a fabless semiconductor company specialising in mixed-signal and RF devices, is currently evaluating the production silicon of its E4000 multi-band CMOS tuner chip, succeeding the early-silicon version that the company has had for some mo....

Crystal oscillator performance witout the crystal 18/9/2008

Silicon Laboratories is offering a new class of oscillator as a frequency reference for applications that the company characterises as “consumer timing”. The Si500 series is all-silicon; it does not use a crystal, but challenges crystal oscillators....

Second-generation ultrawideband chip family from Staccato 17/9/2008

Ripcord2 is Staccato Communications’ second-generation ultra-wideband (UWB) IC that integrates RF front-end, digital baseband, MAC (media access controller) and I/O. The single-chip, all-CMOS device covers WiMedia Bands 1, 3 and 6,....