Silicon Laboratories has introduced a range of universal clock buffers capable of replacing LVPECL, LVDS, CML, HCSL and LVCMOS buffers with a single IC, eliminating the need for multiple fixed-format ...
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Developing a contactless payment terminal for Visa payWave and Mastercard PayPass cards has become quicker and easier with the launch of an EMV pre-certified reference design by ams. The reference design, ...
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ams has introduced a new family of magnetic rotary position sensors with advanced safety features for automotive applications requiring ISO 26262 compliance. The devices incorporate Hall magnetic sensing ...
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Implementing high-speed near field communication (NFC) between two independent devices has been made easier with the introduction of the AS3953 interface chip from ams. The IC offers a high data-rate, ...
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Silicon Laboratories has introduced a crystal-less USB-to-I²S audio bridge designed to support a wide range of codecs and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) used in USB-based audio applications. The ...
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Silicon Laboratories has rolled out a low-power ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontroller (MCU) family and ‘power-aware’ development tools. The Precision32 SiM3L1xx MCUs and development environment ...
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Silicon Laboratories introduced the Precision32 microcontroller (MCU) family. Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the product family includes 32 SiM3U1xx and SiM3C1xx MCU products with footprint-compatible ...
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austriamicrosystems introduced what it claimed as the world’s first lightning sensor IC, the AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor with an embedded intelligent algorithm. The device utilises a sensitive ...
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ams has released the AS3661, a new smart LED driver which controls up to nine LEDs to produce sophisticated indicator lighting effects. The IC allows easy command-based programming of all light patterns, ...
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Traditionally, the key factor in selecting a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) has been the choice of central processing units (i.e., the core CPU). Until recently, 32-bit MCUs were based on a variety of ...
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Wireless headsets, which may be linked over the air to devices such as mobile phones and portable media players, are often used in noisy environments such as cars, aeroplanes, office buildings and public ...
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ams (formerly austriamicrosystems) has launched the AS5132, a magnetic rotary position sensor IC offering accurate angular measurement even at very high rotation speeds. The device is a system-on-chip ...
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