Energy Micro has announced availability of its EFM32 Gecko and Tiny Gecko product lines in a QFP64 package. The new 64-pin devices are targeted at the growing smart metering market, in addition to energy ...
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Silicon Laboratories has introduced an energy-efficient wireless sensor node solution powered by a solar energy harvesting source. The new turnkey energy harvesting reference design enables developers ...
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NuVision Electronics supplies a range of RF modules from HOPE Microelectronics for wireless communication, wireless data transfer and remote control systems. The high-performance FSK/ASK chips and modules ...
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Designing universal serial bus (USB) communications into an application enables a system to communicate with a variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option through the USB connection. ...
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The RN-XVee module by Roving Networks provides drop-in, certified Wi-Fi connectivity for existing systems using 802.15.4 modules. The pin compatible footprint and simple ASCII configuration interface ...
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Monolithic Power Systems supplies a range of LED drivers (and associated evaluation boards) suitable for either step-down or inverting step-up/down applications. The MP248x family achieves up to 2,5 ...
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The AS5410 is the first product in austriamicrosystems’ range of 3D Hall linear position sensors. It allows absolute position sensing of a simple two-pole magnet immediately after starting up the device ...
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Energy Micro has announced the introduction of a starter kit for its ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers. The EFM32TG-STK3300 kit provides users with all the functionality that is needed ...
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austriamicrosystems has introduced the AS1121, a 30 V, 40 mA, 16-channel LED driver with 12-bit PWM (pulse width modulation), dot correction and diagnostics. With a 30 V LED supply voltage, the device ...
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Part 1 of this aricle was published in Dataweek 16 March 2011.       Operating power At a minimum, optocouplers require current to bias the LED and some form of bias on the output side. The total input ...
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Industrial electronic equipment commonly uses galvanic isolators to protect systems and users from potentially hazardous voltages. It is well known that industrial equipment must operate reliably in ...
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The new AS8650 from austriamicrosystems is an automotive power management chip which combines a DC-DC converter and a high-speed transceiver. The IC features efficiency of 85% minimum over all operation ...
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