Logic & Interface Semiconductor Devices updated on: 2nd Jun 2010

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Robust market demand for semiconductor devices in 2010

Latest semiconductor market stats from SIA and IDC

The market growth to continue for semiconductor industry in remaining quarters of 2010

Cypress Semiconductor improves the accuracy of its touch interface for 1 mm accurate stylus tip

Trident Micro revenue in 4Q09 is nearly same as previous quarter

CUI launches updated website for AMT Encoder series

WD and NEC partnered to raise USB 3.0 standard with new storage interface tech

FormFactor unveils 300-mm TouchMatrix probe card for NAND Flash devices

NXP Semiconductor and Virage Logic go for a long-term give and take relationship

Semiconductor industry is cautiously optimistic on next phase of growth

EXAR has acquired Canadian fables semiconductor firm Galazar

Gennum to acquire Tundra Semiconductor

New interface technology to connect timing controller IC with LCD driver IC

Exar Corp to acquire Hifn Inc

Q4 2008 revenues freeze semiconductor industry to a dope less silicon

Intel's new processor to pack graphic part and main processor in single chip

FlexEQ technology for signals to travel farther, faster, and error-free

Fairchild Semiconductor's quarterly revenues drop by 25%

Korea based AsTEK acquires display driver business of Leadis Technology

Monster Cable and Gennum partnering to deliver new cable products for HDMI

ST Engineer's book on Domino Logic

Catalyst Semiconductor proves small analog companies can perform well

Fairchild and Zilker Labs partner to manufacture digital power products

TI says its 1394 devices are a continued success

Cypress sharpens focus on PSOC and gets away from PC clock business by selling it to Spectra Linear.

New Products  

Dual hot-swap controller from Maxim for systems with two 0-16V supply voltages

Low-power EM touch processor from SiS

USB transceiver and USB accessory detection switch from Fairchild for mobile design

8-bit, auto direction, logic level translator from Fairchild for multiple range operations

Half-duplex RS-485 transceivers for industrial applications from Maxim

Clock ICs from ADI to improve performance

Atmel enhances its touch interface technology to support big screens

Interface IC from Maxim connects directly to UARTs and 5V RS232 systems

High-speed LVDS serializer from Maxim for gigabit multimedia designs

2:1/1:2 active multiplexer from Maxim to switch and redrive SAS/SATA signals

2:2VGA crossover switch for switchable-graphics apps

6.5kV ESD-protected RS-485 and RS-422 receivers from Intersil

ICs to drive MOSFET/IGBTs in automotive electronics systems

Hot swap controllers for backplanes with the supply voltage range of 1V to 13.2V

Dual-channel buffer for re-driving SAS/eSATA/SATA signals

Hall-Effect latches withstanding extreme environment

BOM saving clock IC from National for video equipment

Magnetic rotary encoder IC with automatic power-down and wake-up modes

2:1 VGA multiplexer IC for notebook and consumer video applications

USB-to-UART interface conversion made easier by Microchip

3.3V/5.0V single-chip RS-232/RS-485/RS-422 serial transceiver

IEEE 802.3af/at-compliant interface controller chips for Power over Ethernet devices

Haptic piezo controller for touch-screen and touch-button apps

ON Semiconductor expands its clock management portfolio with new clock and data driver ICs

Multiprotocol data transceiver/clock transceiver/termination ICs from Maxim

A single IC with SPI/I²C UART interface with built-in oscillator

52 Mbps single-chip multiprotocol serial transceiver IC from Exar

Dual-channel buffer from Maxim redrive SATA I/ II with cable detect and high ESD

RapidIO 2.1 spec IP core from Altera for FPGA based system developers

Piezo electronic sensor interface from AMS for automotive unbiased capacitive sensors

NXP's CAN/LIN ICs for automotive in-vehicle networks

Quad-channel digital power-supply controller with PMBus interface from Maxim

Switch multiplexes USB data, audio, microphone, and UART on a single connector port

2-bit Digital Step Attenuator for 4G LTE applications

NEC launches USB 3.0 SOC Design Solution

Smart switch devices TDA19997 and TDA19998 from NXP support HDMI 1.4 specs

Memory-card switches from Fairchild Semiconductor for mobile phone and portable apps

Multiplexer ICs to switch video display across DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI ports

Pericom's family of 5 new products for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 apps

Integrated 3-Channel video filter from Fairchild Semiconductor

Mindspeed's dual-channel backplane equalizer and re-driver for serial digital interface

Atmel launches new family of maXTouch touch screen controller devices

New TrueTouchT touchscreen controllers with programmable system-on-chip

Dual die magnetic rotary encoder IC for microcontroller-based automotive apps

LED blinker with TinyWire interface for handheld apps from Fairchild semiconductor

150V high-side driver IC for automotive applications from IR

Maxim's dual-channel RS-232 transceiver with in-built ±70V fault protection

New LVDS serializer for low-power embedded processors

Maxim's 1Gbps to 10.3Gbps quad linear equalizer for copper interconnects

Maxim's multiple-output clock generators for high-speed networking applications

Maxim's touch-screen ICs with integrated infrared-based proximity sensing

Resistive touch screen controllers for large volume small formfactor embedded systems

New PCI Express to PCI translation bridge IC

Low priced new MB86C30A USB 3.0-SATA Bridge IC

Small size High-ESD withstanding USB 2.0 multiplexer operates from 1.8V

USB 2.0 and 3.0 power measurement features in LeCroy USB analyzer platform

0.55 mm thick RTC chips for low-voltage and portable applications

TI's new isolated CAN transceiver

Low-Jitter four-lane, bidirectional PCIe SATA transceivers for backplane extension

Exar's new USB 2.0 compliant UART interface IC works at 12 Mbps

ESD protected logic level translators for memory card apps

4bit and 8bit voltage translators with automatic detection

DDC adds ARINC 575 support for its new ARINC 429 products

Precision clock generators to support multiple standards and designs

New dual channel synchro/resolver PC/104 Card from DDC

12V hot swap controller with integrated hall-effect sensor

USB 3.0 integrated PHY and controller IP for SoCs

New positive emitter-coupled logic (PECL) buffers ICs from TI

New clock generator produces multiple precision clock frequencies for networking

Voltage protection device family for data communication lines

Temperature-stable and stress-resistant Hall-effect switches and latches

Single-channel multi-supply voltage UART series with VLIO bus interface

Low distortion high-speed voice and data switches

Synchronous clock multiplier IC supporting 10G line encoding rates

Real-Time Clock (RTC) module for recording and storing time and date

Common mode, 70V, fault-protected RS-485 transceiver family

Self-protected, hot-plug switch for 12V back-planes

Clock and data recovery transceiver for video broadcast applications

Programmable clock multiplier for Networking and consumer applications

8-channel analog multiplexers for high-voltage systems

Low-cost, low-power dual-SCART video switches for set-top-box designs

Quad hot-swap controller with integrated I²C voltage and current monitor

Small and fast single-channel UART devices

Programmable multi-output clock generators

Atmel's 6-channel touch controller with integral LED driver

New transceiver from Intersil can switch between RS232 and RS485/422

Intersil's ISL59450 multi-format video multiplexer with integrated sync separator

Texas Instrument's new four-channel SerDes Device

New clock generator from Analog Devices for networking apps

Pre-calibrated Real Time Clocks from ST Microelectronics

Real Time Clock IC from Intersil does more than a timing IC

Samsung announces mass production of 256 channel display driver for plasmas

LED driver from Analog Devices for brighter camera flash in mobile phones.

New switch from Fairchild multiplex high speed USB2.0 and audio into a single connector.  

Intersil has released 2:1 multiplexers(ISL54415) to multiplex high-quality A/V and full-speed USB Data

Fairchild"s 1.2 volt load switches in WL-CSP/MLP packages.

Cypress released industry’s first dual port Address/Data Multiplexed Dual-Ports..

Inductor free, charge pump type LED Driver from Catalyst saves board space.

Sipex RS485 transceiver withstand 15 KV of ESD and are hot swappable.

Cypress has improved the performance of capacitor sense interface devices.

Intersil has improved accuracy of RTCs by compensating drift in time with temperature.

New radiation hardened clock driver from Aeroflex

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