Microchip has added to its range of certified Full-Speed USB 2.0 device PIC microcontrollers portfolio 15 scalable 8-bit MCUs ranging from 14 to 100 pins with up to 128kbyte of flash. The MCUs have internal clock sources with the 0.25% clock accuracy necessary … Continue reading →

  STMicroelectronics has announced production stoppages at manufacturing sites at Crolles and Catania according to the French union UNSA and may soon announce a new business model for the company.   The eight inch plant at Crolles will have seven … Continue reading →

  Linear Technology’s LT3959 is a DC-DC converter for boost, SEPIC and inverting power supply applications. The device operates over an input voltage range of 2.5V to 40V, has an onboard 6A/40V power switch and achieves efficiencies up to 96%. Likely applications … Continue reading →

The latching DW relay from Panasonic has been developed for smart meters, in particular the switching of heater circuit-breakers. Available from Assured Electronics, the relays can also be used to minimise standby currents in white goods such as washing machines, … Continue reading →

  Connector distributor PEI-Genesis can now assemble EN2997/983 series engine connectors from Deutsch/TE Aerospace. This follows TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Deutsch Group SAS in April.  The Deutsch/TE products introduce a new line for PEI-Genesis to support the commercial aviation and MRO industries worldwide. “As the only … Continue reading →

Altera has production availability of its 40Gbit/s Ethernet (40GbE) and 100Gbit/s Ethernet (100GbE) intellectual property (IP) cores. These cores can be used for building systems requiring very high throughput-rate standard Ethernet connections, including chip-to-optical module, chip-to-chip, and backplane applications. The media … Continue reading →

Texas Instruments has added two new evaluation modules (EVMs) for its KeyStone-based TMS320C665x multicore digital signal processors (DSPs). The TMDSEVM6657L and TMDSEVM6657LE EVMs are designed for processors, the TMS320C6654, TMS320C6655 and TMS320C6657 which offer fixed- and floating-point capabilities for mission … Continue reading →

Avago Technologies has a 120Gbit/s multichannel optical transmitter and receiver module and a CXP pluggable transceiver for board-edge, box-to-box and rack-to-rack communications. The stand-alone MiniPODTM transmit and receive modules—the AFBR-81uVxyZ and AFBR-82uVxyZ, respectively, each contain 12 unidirectional channels (lanes) that … Continue reading →

Wednesday 18 July 2012 Assured Electronics is stocking Cree’s XLamp XP-G2 LEDs which increase lumen output up to 20% and increasing lumens per dollar by 150%, compared with the previous XP-G range of LEDs. The XP-G2 LEDs share the same … Continue reading →