Cellphone chargers typically sit plugged in and unused most of the time. Yet they still draw power from the grid, wasting energy and the consumer’s money. A problem facing design engineers is how to reduce ...
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New from Vishay is a Power Metal Strip meter shunt resistor with sense leads designed to be soldered directly to the PCB, eliminating the need for costly flexible leads. The WSMS2908 combines a 3 W power ...
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NXP Semiconductors has released the LPC11U00 series – a low-cost ARM Cortex-M0 based microcontroller featuring a highly flexible USB architecture as well as a smart card interface. The MCU enables maximum ...
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Offering higher precision than typical discrete SMT chips, devices in the ORNV series combine five resistors, including two voltage dividers and a reference resistor, in a 4 by 5 mm, eight-pin surface-mount ...
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New from International Rectifier are the iP1837 and iP1827 iPowIR voltage regulators for point-of-load (POL) applications requiring high current. The devices integrate a control MOSFET, synchronous FETKY, ...
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New from Vishay is a proximity and ambient light optical sensor that combines an IR emitter, PIN photodiode, ambient light detector, signal processing IC and a 16-bit ADC in a 3,95 x 3,95 x 0,75 mm leadless ...
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International Rectifier has expanded its SupIRBuck family of integrated point-of-load (POL) voltage regulators. The new IR347x and IR386x devices for energy-efficient computing and consumer applications ...
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Littelfuse introduced its new 977 series of ceramic body, 5 x 20 mm fuses designed for circuit protection in both high-power AC and power-efficient DC applications. The fuses are rated at 450 V d.c. ...
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To address the need for lower operating voltages in battery-operated consumer products, Vishay has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of a new ‘V’ low-voltage supply option ...
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Freescale’s new MSC8157 and MSC8158 products are the next generation of the widely deployed MSC8156 DSP. They are based on Freescale’s SC3850 core running at 1,2 Ghz, which reportedly earned the highest ...
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New from International Rectifier is the IRF6708S2 and IRF6728M 30 V DirectFET MOSFET chipset tailored for cost-sensitive 19 V input synchronous buck applications. The IRF6708S2 small can and IRF6728M ...
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International Rectifier has introduced a family of automotive-qualified planar MOSFETs for a variety of applications used in internal combustion engine (ICE), hybrid and full electric vehicle platforms. ...
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