Logic

Nexperia automotive 120V/4A half-bridge gate driver for robustness and efficiency

Nexperia introduced a new series of high-performance gate driver ICs designed for driving both high-side and low-side N-channel MOSFETs in a synchronous buck or half-bridge configuration. These devices deliver high current output and excellent dynamic performance, boosting efficiency and robustness

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Logic

High speed half-duplex RS-485 transceivers with improved protection

MaxLinear launched two new RS-485 serial transceiver families (MxL8312x and MxL8321x) specifically designed to ensure reliable, high-performance communication in harsh industrial environments. The new transceiver families include nine product SKUs with three speed options (250kbps, 500kbps, 50Mbps)

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Logic

MediaTek achieves long reach 224G SerDes for its ASICs

At the recently held OCP Global Summit, MediaTek, an industry leader in ASIC with more than 1 billion units shipped and over 70 product tape-outs demonstrated its silicon proven long reach 224G SerDes, marking a significant leap forward in performance, reliability, and efficiency for the highest-per

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Logic

Littelfuse unveils IX4341 and IX4342 Dual 5A LS MOSFET gate drivers

Littelfuse launched the IX4341 and IX4342 dual 5 ampere low-side MOSFET gate drivers. These gate drivers are specifically designed for driving MOSFETs and complete the existing IX434x driver series by adding the remaining two logic input versions. The IX434x series now consists of dual non-inverting

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Communication

Tagore HP GaN SPDT switches with 550W peak power for Radar and Cellular Infra

Tagore Technology introduced the TS8728N and TS8729N asymmetrical reflective single-pole two throw (SPDT) switches designed for broadband, high-power switching applications. The new feature-rich switches offer best-in-class insertion loss, power handling, high linearity, and high isolation performan

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Logic

A video interface chip extend cable length up to 15 m from camera to display

Not only smart phones and wearables, now the cars need multiple high resolution cameras, where CMOS image sensor need to be connected to the SOC chips and embedded boards, to encode the image into digital data and also to process further. For the electronics designer, its a complex job to connect an

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Logic

MoSys' MSH420 MUX PHY IC is interoperable with IDTs 10xN RXS2448 RapidIO switch.

MoSys' MSH420 MUX PHY IC is now made interoperable with IDTs 10xN RXS2448 RapidIO switch. The MoSys MSH420 MUX PHY IC is a flexible SerDes(serializer,deserializer) chip designed to MUX high-speed protocols into a higher rate output in one direction and DeMUX in the other direction. IDT says 1

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Logic

DUSB2-ULPI IP for hardware implementation of full/high-speed peripheral controller

If you are looking to do a hardware implementation of full/high-speed peripheral controller on your SoC chip, the new USB2.0 IP from Digital Core Design can be a option. Basically the new DUSB2-ULPI IP contains USB PID and address recognition logic, state machines which can handle USB packets and tr

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Interconnect

HDMI unveils USB Type – C connector as an alternative mode

HDMI Licensing, LLC releases HDMI Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) for the USB Type-C Specification. So that , the HDMI-enabled source devices can utilize a USB Type-C connector to directly connect to HDMI-enabled displays. It can deliver native HDMI signals over a simple cable without the need for inco

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Opto

MD-SIG launches LEDset specs for interoperable LED drivers and modules

The Module-Driver Interface Special Interest Group (MD-SIG), a lighting-industry consortium, has published its LEDset specifications. LEDset provides the lighting market with a standardized, multi-vendor, electrical interface for LED systems, which simplifies the process of matching LED modules with

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Logic

QuickLogic' EOS S3 sensor processing SoC in production

QuickLogic announced successful completion of production qualification testing for its new EOS S3 sensor processing SoC, where initial shipments to support pre-production requirements to its tier1 customer scheduled for later this month. The multi-core SoC EOS S3 handles concurrent sensor appli

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Logic

Brushless DC Motor driver smartly control the speed of cooling fans in notebooks

To smartly control the speed of cooling fans in notebooks and desktop computers and such systems where fan speed requires control, Diodes Incorporated is offering brushless DC motor drivers with bridge-tied-load (BTL) drive architecture. These new motor driver chips support lesser audible switchin

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