The SmartBond DA14580 SoC, from Dialog Semiconductor, has been used in the Cateye Strada Smart Cyclocomputer. The Strada Smart is a device that aggregates the data from smart sensors located on the bike and the cyclist. The data held by the Strada Smart cyclocomputer can then be transferred wirelessly to a smartphone where an app provides an enhanced cycling training experience. The Strada Smart harvests cycling data and presents i...

Designed to bring mood-enhancing ambiance to price-sensitive SSL bulbs, the iW3640 has been introduced by Dialog Semiconductor. The 2-channel, 25W SSL LED driver offers a simple, low-cost, dimmable colour-mixing solution to achieve warm incandescent-like dimming while eliminating the need for a microcontroller and dedicated power supply.

Addressing dimming performance, heat and cost in high power, dimmable solid state lighting applications, the iW3600 is a single-stage LED driver. Introduced by Dialog Semiconductor, the 45W output LED driver seamlessly dims from 100% down to 1% of measured light with virtually no dead travel and offers low pop-on current to turn light on at very low dimmer levels (less than 5% of light output).

A low power audio codec, the DA7212, has been launched by Dialog Semiconductor. The company claims that the codec has unsurpassed always-on power consumption to enable ‘voice trigger’ activated applications. The DA7212 is a 24 bit audio CODEC that supports digital or analogue MEMS microphones and offers a number of DSP features including ALC, 5 band EQ and noise gate.

Using the company's intelligent rapid charge digital algorithm and digital primary-side control technology, the iW1680 AC/DC rapid charge controller can significantly reduce charge times in USB AC/DC wall chargers with no bill of materials cost premium over slower conventional charging technologies.

Nintendo has utilised the SC14448 and SC14492 chips from Dialog Semiconductor for their Wii U Wireless Microphone. Dialog’s technology offers interference-free connectivity, impressive battery life and reliability, and allows consumers more freedom to move, dance and jump when using the Wii U for karaoke or other games.

Now in production, the DA14580 SmartBond SoC has been hailed as the world’s smallest and lowest power Bluetooth Smart device by Dialog Semiconductor. Compared to competing solutions on the market, the DA14580 more than doubles the battery life of an application-enabled smartphone accessory, wearable device or computer peripheral.

Designed for Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 power supplies, DIalog Semiconductor announces the iW620 AC/DC adapter interface IC. The IC resides on the secondary side of the AC/DC charger power supply and works with Dialog’s iW1760 PrimAccurate primary-side digital PWM controller.  

Allowing for less than one-half the overall volume and claiming to be 50% thinner than conventional 45W adapters, Dialog's 45W power adapter has been released alongside a 12W travel-size power adapter. Designed for use with Ultrabooks, the 12W design enables the first compact, pocket-size adapters for an Ultrabook at just 68mm x 68mm x 17mm thick, with a typical charge time under five hours.  

Dialog Semiconductor and Richtek Technology have announced a collaboration partnership. Under the agreement, the two companies will develop and commercialise differentiated power management system solutions for the high-volume, high-growth consumer market in China, focuising on PMICs for the smartphone and tablet market.

Dialog Semiconductor has today announced a new LED driver technology, the smarteXite platform, which enables new generation of highly flexible, programmable LED driver ICs for smart lighting applications. Allowing easy integration into lighting control systems, the fully configurable logic-based, SmarteXite is the first LED driver technology to directly and easily support wireless connectivity and light sensor control.

The DA7202, introduced today by Dialog Semiconductor, is a powerful and highly efficient low EMI Class D speaker driver designed with a small footprint in order to keep devices, such as the increasingly popular Ultrabook, as light and compact as possible. The DA7202 provides greater power output and improved efficiency levels for Ultrabooks, tablets and speaker accessories powered by a dual cell battery pack.

Dialog Semiconductor introduce the industry’s first digital pulse width modulation controller that can easily and efficiently drive low-cost, 10W power bipolar junction transistor switches to reduce the BOM cost in 5V/2A smartphone adapters and chargers. The new iW1679 allows designers to replace field effect transistors with lower-cost BJTs and address the market trends for lower standby power and higher light-load and active average effic...

Dialog Semiconductor Plc announced today that it has licenced Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP IP from Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Dialog will initially deploy the IP to develop next-generation audio solutions for its connectivity products.

Dialog Semiconductor introduces its flagship quad buck PMIC subsystem, the DA9063. An advanced high performance PMIC, the DA9063 provides supply domain flexibility to support a wide range of multicore application processors, including ARM multicore devices, associated peripherals and user interface functions. The new PMIC provides multi-processor core power with a switched-mode DC input/USB compatible charger, full power path management and multi...

Dialog Semiconductor has today announced a new solid state lighting LED driver that integrates boost and flyback converters into a single IC to reduce the bill of material costs and simplify the design, compared to conventional two-stage driver approaches, while delivering exceptional performance. The new iW3623 was developed by Dialog’s Power Conversion Business Group, formerly iWatt, acquired in July 2013 and delivering on Dialog’s ...

Dialight today announced the immediate availability of a new style LED Conveyor Light. The fixture is designed specifically for use in harsh environments all too familiar in mining applications, where maintenance of thousands of light fittings installed on kilometres of conveyors and walkways across vast sites is an expensive and ongoing burden.

Dialog Semiconductor announced today a new audio codec reference module – based on its DA7321 audio codec – for Freescale Semiconductor’s Tower System Development Platform. The DA7321 is part of Freescale’s microcontroller and microprocessor portfolio ecosystem and targets a broad range of audio applications, including small speakers, headphones, docking stations and gaming systems.

Dialog Semiconductor today launched SmartBond (part number DA14580) – the world’s lowest power and smallest Bluetooth Smart System-on-Chip which more than doubles the battery life of an app-enabled smartphone accessory or computer peripheral in comparison to competing solutions on the market.

Dialog Semiconductor plc today announced its move into touchscreen sensors with the launch of the SmartWave – part number DA8901 – Multi-Touch Integrated Circuit (MTIC). The MTIC is the world’s first chip to enable FlatFrog’s1 market proven Planar Scatter Detection (PSD) Touch in high volume consumer devices. Using in-lens infrared light, the FlatFrog PSD Touch system can detect and track multiple touches, gestures and pre...