Components

In critical systems, genuine components are the safest and most reliable. Designers can now enhance safety, security, and data integrity for vehicle systems while reducing complexity and code development by authenticating components with Maxim Integrated Products‘ DS28E40 DeepCover automotive secure authenticator. As the newest addition to Maxim’s line of AEC-Q100 Grade 1 solutions for automotive…

Nexperia, the expert in essential semiconductors, has announced the industry’s first 80 V Resistor-equipped Transistor (RET) family.  These new RETs — or digital transistors — provide enough headroom for use in a 48-V automotive board net (e.g. mild hybrid and EV cars), as well as in other higher-voltage circuits. This is particularly true for those…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has introduced the world’s first 60W wireless power receiver. The new P9418 delivers faster wireless charging experiences for smartphones, laptops, and notebook devices in the industry’s highest power-density solution.  Featuring Renesas’ exclusive WattShare technology, the highly integrated P9418 wireless power receiver delivers up to 60W of power…

Building upon the advantages of STMicroelectronics’ MasterGaN platform, MasterGaN2 is the first in the new family to contain two asymmetric gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors — delivering an integrated GaN solution suited to soft-switching and active-rectification converter topologies. The 650V normally-off GaN transistors have on-resistance (RDS(on)) of 150mΩ and 225mΩ. Each is combined with an optimized gate driver, making…

In modern offline AC-DC power solutions, programmability and adaptive control offer the flexibility and intelligence needed by smart home devices to better interface with their power systems. In these systems, a secondary side microcontroller (MCU) is typically not capable of starting a system without the use of a separate bias power supply.  However, a new…

Allegro MicroSystems, a global provider of sensing and power, announced the launch of the ACS37800 — a Hall-effect, power-monitoring IC for single-phase AC and DC solutions in a small PCB footprint.  Another industry-first innovation, Allegro’s ACS37800 is an integrated power-monitoring chip that allows simultaneous measurement of power, voltage, and current for AC and DC signals.…

According to research consultancy, Omdia, Infineon Technologies AG has successfully positioned itself as a market leader for MEMS microphones. Based on MEMS chip unit sales, the market share was reported to hit a staggering 43.5 percent. This positions Infineon at the top, with a lead of almost four percent over second place and more than…

Nuvoton Technology has launched a new NuMicro M031BT series: a low-power BLE 5.0 and 2.4GHz dual-mode microcontroller series, by Arm Cortex-M0 core operating up to 48 MHz, with up to 128 KB Flash and 16 KB SRAM. In addition to the BLE 5.0 and 2.4GHz RF functions providing wireless connectivity, the NuMicro M031BT series built-in…

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, now offers a solution to accelerate the market introduction of new Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4-based IoT devices with a miniature, ready-to-use-STM32 wireless microcontroller (MCU) module. The 7mm x 11.3mm STM32WB5MMG module lets product teams build connected devices without needing wireless-design skills. Made to enable low-cost…

Microchip Technology Inc. recently announced a radiation-tolerant, 64-megabit (Mbit), parallel-interface SuperFlash memory device with Total Ionizing Dose (TID) tolerance for maximum reliability and robustness in the harsh radiation environment of space missions.  This is an ideal companion to Microchip’s space-ready microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) that provide the building blocks…

TDK Corporation recently announced the release of Tronics AXO315 — a miniature high-performance, one-axis closed-loop MEMS accelerometer with a 24-bit digital SPI interface and SMD package. The benefits: it reaches quartz sensors performances, outperforms commercial MEMS sensors, and eases integration. The new force-rebalance accelerometer delivers an excellent one-year composite bias repeatability of 1 mg and…

Texas Instruments (TI) has expanded its high-voltage power management portfolio with the next-generation of 650-V and 600-V gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for automotive and industrial applications. With a fast-switching, 2.2-MHz integrated gate driver, the new families of GaN FETs help engineers deliver twice the power density, achieve 99% efficiency and reduce the size…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has unveiled the R-Car V3U – a best-in-class ASIL D system on chip (SoC) for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) systems.  Delivering a groundbreaking 60 TOPS with low-power consumption for deep learning processing and up to 96,000 DMIPS, the R-Car V3U is…

Infineon Technologies AG adds a new generation to its most versatile and simple-to-use EiceDRIVER 1ED Compact isolated gate driver family: the X3 Compact (1ED31xx) family. This gate driver provides separate output options together with the active shutdown and short-circuit clamping in DSO-8 300 mil package. The active Miller clamp option is ideally suited for silicon…

TDK Corporation recently announced the launch of its MDF1005 series of noise-suppression filters for in-vehicle PoC, used in applications such as ADAS circuits, BUS lines, telematics units, and more. Mass production has begun this December. The products in the MDF1005 series offer good DC superimposition characteristics with impedance within the PoC high-frequency band, between 700…

The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has introduced the industry’s first 4-quadrant silicon PIN photodiode in a standard surface-mount package, qualified for automotive applications. Combining high photosensitivity with low 0.1 % crosstalk, and virtually no tolerance between its segments, the Vishay Semiconductors’ K857PE enable a variety of sensor and control applications for the automotive,…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has expanded its RA4 Series microcontrollers (MCUs) with the new 32-bit RA4M3 Group of MCUs. The RA4M3 MCUs boost operating performance up to 100 MHz using the Arm Cortex-M33 core based on the Armv8-M architecture. The Arm TrustZone technology is Renesas’ Secure Crypto Engine. With a…

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the availability of its 2nd generation of comprehensive Airfast RF power Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs) designed to support the evolution of 5G mMIMO active antenna system requirements for cellular base stations. Focused on accelerating the coverage of 5G, the new all-in-one power amplifier module family is based on NXP’s latest LDMOS technology that…

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced the industry’s highest-performance, single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications.  Renesas’ Intersil brand ISL73141SEH delivers best-in-class dynamic and static performance, including signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), an effective number of bits (ENOB), an integral non-linearity (INL), and a differential non-linearity…

Vishay Intertechnology is adding a new device to its fourth-generation 600 V EF Series fast-body diode MOSFETs. With high efficiency for telecom, industrial, computing, and enterprise power supply applications, the Vishay Siliconix n-channel SiHH070N60EF slashes on-resistance by 29 percent compared with previous-generation devices. The new device also delivers a 60 percent lower-gate charge. This results in…