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ZMD ZIOL2201 Line Driver and Level Shifter IC

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Wednesday, February 16, 2011

ZMD introduced the ZIOL2201 line driver and level shifter IC. The ZMD ZIOL2201 features high-voltage I/O channel, integrated DC/DC converter, IO-Link communication standard support, operating temperature of -40°C to +85°C, and 4mm x 4mm QFN24 package. The output driver is a push pull stage that reaches an RDSon of less than 6.6 Ohms. The IC [...]

Texas Instruments ISO1176T Isolated Profibus RS-485 Transceiver

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the ISO1176T isolated half-duplex differential line transceiver with integrated transformer driver. The TI ISO1176T provides the primary voltage for an isolation transformer. The ISO1176T offers the smallest isolated signal and power system design with highest efficiency and lowest electromagnetic interference (EMI). The 16-pin SOIC ISO1176T is available now for $3.30 (in [...]

Summit SMB109 Programmable Multi-Output DC-DC Power Manager

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Summit Microelectronics introduced the SMB109 programmable DC-DC power manager. The Summit SMB109 features multiple DC-DC outputs, digital power management/monitoring, and non-volatile system configuration. The SMB109 is available now in a thermally-enhanced, RoHS-compliant, lead-free 7mm X 7mm, 56-pad QFN. The SMB109 is priced at $3.50 in quantities of 10,000 units. The SMB109 is ideal for powering [...]

IDT LDS7000 and LDS7001 Touch Screen Controller ICs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Integrated Device Technology introduced the LDS7000 and LDS7001 touch screen controller IC’s. The LDS7000 and LDS7001 are optimized for IDT’s single-layer multi-touch projected capacitive touch screen technology. They do not not require cross-over isolation points like other solutions. The new ICs are sampling now. The LDS7000 is available in a 5×5 mm, 40-pin TQFN package. [...]

u-blox UBX-G6010-NT GPS

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Friday, January 14, 2011

The u-blox UBX-G6010-NT is a single-chip GPS solution. The UBX-G6010-NT measures only 5 x 6 x 1.1 mm and does require an external host. The UBX-G6010-NT GPS features high sensitivity (down to -162 dBm or -148 dBm during coldstart) and fast acquisition times. The total system BOM requires as few as 5 external components (including [...]

Microchip RE46C190 Smoke Detector IC

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Microchip Technology introduced the RE46C190 3V photo smoke-detector IC with horn driver and boost regulator. The RE46C190 features low-voltage operation with programmable calibration and operating modes. With the smoke-detector IC, the desired operating modes can be selected and calibrated during manufacturing. A single Lithium battery can power the chip for up to ten years. Two [...]

Dialog DA8223 Real-time 2D to 3D Video Conversion Chip

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Monday, December 13, 2010

Dialog Semiconductor introduced the DA8223 real time 2D to 3D video conversion chip for portable devices. The device is supports 3D capable displays from 3.8″ smartphones up to 10″ tablet PCs. The DA8223 features a parallax barrier screen driver that lets users view 3D content without the need for glasses. The 5x5mm 81-ball UFBGA chip [...]

Vishay 34 THE Hall Effect Sensor

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Thursday, December 9, 2010

Vishay Intertechnology announced the ten-turns 34 THE Hall effect sensor. The multi-turn sensor features non-contacting technology. The 34 THE Hall effect sensor has a life of 50 million cycles with a servo mount and 10 million cycles with a bushing mount. Samples of the 34 THE are available now. Production quantities will be available in [...]

Semitech SM2101 FSK/BPSK Power Line Transceiver

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Semitech Semiconductor introduced their SM2101 FSK/BPSK based power line transceiver. The SM2101 is ideal for Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Automated Meter Reading (AMR) applications. The SM2101 is based on the SM6401. However, the SM2101 does not include embedded Flash and application microcontroller (MCU) to lower the cost for high volume PLC applications on low [...]

PMC-Sierra SynthePHY Programmable System Clock Synthesizer and SERDES

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Thursday, December 2, 2010

PMC-Sierra introduced their SynthePHY family of integrated dual channel 6Gb/s SERDES and programmable clock synthesizer solutions optimized for wireless infrastructure radio designs. The SynthePHY devices feature 30 clock outputs that can be programmed over a wide frequency band, ranging from 3MHz to 1.6GHz and meet the phase noise performance required by multi-carrier GSM, WCDMA and [...]

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