Rechargeable 30 LED burns up on AC – I have some emergency rechargeable lights. As soon as I connect them to a 220V AC outlet 220v they burn…
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By Aimee Kalnoskas |
Rechargeable 30 LED burns up on AC – I have some emergency rechargeable lights. As soon as I connect them to a 220V AC outlet 220v they burn…
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By Andrew Zistler |
In the midst of explosive wireless device growth in the Internet of Things market, innovative antenna leader Taoglas USA, Inc. has announced it has opened a unique facility…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) has announced a new high power monolithic microwave surface mount (MMSM) series-shunt SP2T PIN diode reflective switch, the MPS2R10-606. The device is optimized for…
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By Chris Francis |
Education for electronics design tends to have a fair amount of math in it but how much is really required nowadays in order to design electronics? You certainly…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL) announced today the availability of a new X-band silicon quad-core integrated circuit from Anokiwave, Inc. The highly-integrated AWS-0101 is intended for radar and…
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By Aimee Kalnoskas |
By Ian Dennison, Sr. Group Director, R&D, Cadence As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes an increasingly competitive market, we should, in 2016, expect new package and board…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Richardson Electronics, Ltd. has announced the availability of a new X-band silicon quad-core integrated circuit from Anokiwave, Inc. The highly-integrated AWS-0101 is intended for radar and 5G phased…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Power Integrations has announced its InnoSwitch-CP family of off-line CV/CC flyback switching ICs. The new devices incorporate a constant power output profile which, when paired with an adaptive-voltage…
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By Andrew Zistler |
STMicroelectronics has extended its M24 serial EEPROM family with four new devices that are fully compatible with the industry-standard 4-ball WLCSP (Wafer Level Chip Scale Package) footprint. The…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Linear Technology introduces the LT6375, a unity-gain difference amplifier with integrated precision matched resistors, which precisely level shifts and buffers small difference signals while rejecting up to ±270V…
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By Lee Teschler |
Glimpse the global manufacturing industry’s most exciting innovations at the largest industrial trade show and fair in the world, Hannover Fair — for free. That’s what’s in store…
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By Andrew Zistler |
STMicroelectronics has announced a new solution for USB Type-C and Power Delivery with an interface IC aimed at clearing the “Rat’s Nest” of cables in the office and…
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By Chris Francis |
Sensors such as strain gauges, pressure gauges and some magnetic sensors are often bridge devices. They can be full or half bridge although the bridges are usually made…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has launched a new Bluetooth Smart 4.2 System-on-Chip (SoC) family specifically designed to help engineers meet…
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By Andrew Zistler |
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), has released its second-generation laser-ranging sensor based on its highly successful FlightSense technology. The new sensor, the VL53L0, can range faster, over longer distances, and…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and CyweeMotion Ltd., today announced that CyweeMotion’s Sensor Fusion Hub™ software has been optimized for Cadence Tensilica Fusion digital signal processors (DSPs)….
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By Andrew Zistler |
Intersil Corporation today introduced the industry’s first radiation tolerant 3.3V controller area network (CAN) transceivers that are fully QML-V qualified and compliant with the ISO11898-2 physical layer standard….
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By Andrew Zistler |
Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a world leader in storage, cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia semiconductor solutions, today announced the advanced Avastar 88W8977 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2…
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By Andrew Zistler |
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced the world’s most power efficient Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solution. The new chip is 40 percent more energy efficient…
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By Aimee Kalnoskas |
Common emitter non-symmetrical gain – I have simulated in LTspice a very simple CE amplifier. There is no AC capacitor at the emitter It is a plain and…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Pasternack is expanding their waveguide product portfolio with the addition of new flexible waveguides that operate up to 40 GHz over nine frequency bands. This offering consists of…
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By Aimee Kalnoskas |
When the thermal heat dissipation requirements of a design are very high, using an aluminum backed PCB is a highly effective solution. Aluminum backed designs are able to…
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By Andrew Zistler |
Pasternack has added new millimeter wave (mm-wave) waveguide frequency mixers available in six down-conversion and six up-conversion models that cover full Ka, Q, U, V, E, and W…
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By Lee Teschler |
Leland Teschler Executive Editor You can say at least one thing about the recently released movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It inspired a pretty cool toy called…
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Tear-down of the Sphero BB-8 toy appeared first on Analog IC Tips.
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. introduces the UltraCMOS PE44820, an 8-bit digital phase shifter that covers a 358.6-degree phase range. This monolithic, digitally controlled product is easy to design-in and…
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