Three compact DIP8 package products have been added by Toshiba Electronics Europe, to its line-up of photorelays that can replace mechanical relays in industrial applications. The devices - which include an industry-leading 5A large drive current  – will suit a variety of applications ranging from HVAC systems to inverters, PLCs and Automated Test Equipment (ATE).

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of stepper motor drivers with an ultra-compact device offering a maximum output withstand voltage of 40V and output current of 2.0A. The TC78S122FTG will help designers save space, reduce power consumption, lower heat dissipation and minimise vibration and acoustic noise in high-speed motion control designs. Target applications include surveillance cameras, ATMs, office automation equipment, fact...

The MK4 group is the second offering in Toshiba’s TXZ family of high speed, low power consumption microcontrollers that incorporate the ARM Cortex-M core. The new range of microcontrollers allow a single-chip, with a low pin-count (32- to 64-pins), to control multiple motors.

Processor technology is key to optimising functionality and battery life in wearables to meet the performance/power trade-off, writes Luciano Duca, General Manager, Toshiba Electronics Europe.

The offering of compact, high-efficiency, high-speed switching MOSFETs from Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded further. The U-MOS IX-H family has a SMD device offering a maximum VDSS rating of 60V and a maximum drain current of 100A. The TPH1R306PL is supplied in a SOP Advance surface mount package and has an ultra-low typical on resistance (RDS(ON) of just 1.0mΩ (VGS = 10V).

Two new N-channel devices has been added to Toshiba Electronics Europe’s U-MOS IX-H family of switching MOSFETs. The TK3R1E04PL and TK3R1A04PL can help designers to improve performance and reduce power consumption in power supply applications such as DC-DC converters and the secondary side circuits of SMPS AC-DC power supplies.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced four new compact control photorelays capable of handling currents in the range of 1.7A to 4A. The high-current devices in 2.54SOP4 and 2.54SOP6 packages are ideal for industrial applications such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), battery management systems (BMS) and factory automation inverters.

A series of low-input current drive, rail-to-rail output, gate-drive photocouplers has been introduced by Toshiba Electronics Europe. With threshold input current of 2mA (max), half the 4mA (max) of Toshiba’s existing products, these new photocouplers allow buffer-free direct drive of low- to medium-power IGBTs and MOSFETs from microcontrollers.

A new device has been added to the family of 24nm flash SLC (single-level cell) memory devices from Toshiba Electronics Europe that provides a capacity of 16GB in an industry-standard 48-pin TSOP package.

A series of next-generation output transistor arrays that feature a DMOS FET type sink output has been announced by Toshiba Electronics Europe.The TBD62183AFNG and TBD62183AFWG are ideal for level shift applications and for directly controlling photocouplers, LEDs, and relays that require high-voltage input signals.

The immediate availability of 'Easy Prototyping', a solution that allows reuse of the design assets required to develop large scale custom SoC with FPGA prototyping has been announced by Toshiba. Adoption of the solution dramatically shortens the development time from FPGA prototyping to custom SoC development. Easy Prototyping is available on Toshiba’s ASIC and FFSA platforms.

Two compact, N-Channel MOSFETs for load switching in automotive applications have been announced by Toshiba. The 60V SSM3K341R and the 100V SSM3K361R deliver class leading low ON-resistance and are qualified according to the AEC-Q101 standard. As a result, they are suitable for use in power management, including DC/DC converter or load switch applications which are of increasing importance for the ever developing electronic systems in vehicles.

The continuous growth of data traffic - driven by smartphones, wearables and applications such as VR and the IoT - leads to increasing numbers of high-speed interfaces that typically require protection against ESD events. To address this demand, Toshiba Electronics Europe has released ESD protection diodes based on its 4th gen ESD diode array process (EAP-IV), which uses Toshiba’s proprietary snapback technology.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has further extended its family of EXCERIA PRO memory products with the launch of the SDXC N501 and microSDXC M402. With strong characteristics for capturing 4K video, these new cards will appeal to those wishing to capture professional grade images and video.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a family of Hi-Speed-compatible TransMemory USB 2.0 Flash drives that will address portable data storage and transfer needs requiring capacities up to 128GB. The new TransMemory U203 Flash drives feature a sleek, white design and incorporate a USB connector that retracts quickly with the pull of a slide control.

Reducing the development time of IoT devices and other applications based around BLE components from Toshiba, a Bluetooth Developer Studio (BDS) ‘plug-in’ has been announced by Toshiba Electronics Europe. BDS is a GATT (Generic ATTribute profile) -based application development tool provided by the Bluetooth SIG that helps developers create consistent Bluetooth services and applications across multiple chipsets and platforms.

Expanding its line-up of video processors for high-resolution automotive displays, Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the TC90175XBG. This video processor is suited for the larger, higher resolution driver support information displays that are increasingly used in vehicles for applications other than navigation.

At this week’s 2016 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, USA, Toshiba Electronics Europe will demonstrate Flashmatrix, an all-flash big data analytic platform. Flashmatrix is well suited for the growing need for real time/streaming analytics in distributed systems targeted at high data intensive applications in manufacturing, finance, medical and security.

Toshiba unveiled today the latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory with a stacked cell structure, a 64-layer device that will be first in the world to start sample shipments today. The new device incorporates 3-bit-per-cell (Triple-Level Cell, TLC) technology and achieves a 256Gb (32GB) capacity, an advance that underscores the potential of Toshiba’s proprietary architecture.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a 9-channel output LED driver IC that will save board space and reduce the size of LED modules in a variety of lighting and illumination applications. The TB62D786FTG has a single-wire Manchester-encoded interface, which is often used for wireless communication. Built-in daisy-chain pins and a 5V output LDO, capable of handling inputs from 7 to 28V, improve the extendibility of the IC.