Most applications which incorporate a heating element require measurement of temperature. There are many different types of sensors available for temperature measurement, but obviously, the simplest approach ...
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The TAS5121 is a high-performance digital amplifier power stage from Texas Instruments designed to drive a 4 W speaker up to 100 W. The device incorporates PurePath Digital technology and can be used ...
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The SH7641, a 32-bit SuperH RISC microprocessor from Renesas, features 144-Kbyte SRAM, 16-Kbyte cache memory and comprehensive peripheral functions including a multifunction timer unit for motor control. ...
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Texas Instruments released the world's first 1 GHz digital signal processor (DSP). The TMS320C6414T, '5T, and '6T DSPs at 1 GHz provide eight GigaMACs on 8-bit data for video and imaging applications, ...
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Renesas Technology has released a 1 GB CompactFlash Type I (3,3 mm thick) that it claims offers the fastest available write speed of 10 MBps. The company is also currently developing a 4 GB PC-ATA card ...
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The CPC1130N, CPC1135N and CPC1231N OptoMOS solid-state relays (SSR) from Clare are optically coupled, normally closed relays that use depletion mode MOSFETS to achieve a 1 Form B relay contact configuration. ...
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Atmel has launched a Linux operating system port for its AT91RM9200 microcontroller and its ARM9 core-based ASICs. It enables application developers to take full advantage of the resources and support ...
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Philips Semiconductors offers magneto-resistive (MR) sensors with coils integrated into the housing that compensate for both temperature drift and sensor offset. Magnetic field sensors are commonly used ...
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In January Motorola announced what it said is the industry's first IC for three-dimensional electric field imaging. The single chip MC33794 device generates and detects a low-level electric field and ...
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Clare released a new category of telecommunication IC - the CPC5710N phone line monitor (PLM). The CPC5710N is an integrated circuit that implements telephone line interface functions, previously available ...
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Semiconductor Insights (SI) presented Intersil with its 2003 INSIGHT Award for Most Innovative Wireless Device for its PRISM Duette Dual Band, 802.11 a, b & g chipset. The innovative two-chip solution ...
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The AVR Butterfly is a low-cost evaluation kit for the LCD AVR family of microcontrollers from Atmel. The kit was designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the first family member, the Mega169 Microcontroller ...
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