Toshiba has announced two 5V constant voltage regulators for use in the automotive industry. The TB9005FNG and TB9021FNG incorporate system reset functions for microcontrollers that contribute to improved safety in automotive systems. The ICs incorporate system reset functions including a window watchdog feature to aid the resetting of MCUs when an abnormal state is detected or a processor gets stuck in a loop.

Toshiba has released a BLDC motor pre-driver IC for use in Electric Power Steering (EPS) systems. The TB9081FG features enhanced fail safe and failure detection circuits to achieve a high level of functional safety. With safety-critical automotive systems such as EPS now needing to meet the requirements of ASIL-D, it is vital for these devices to offer comprehensive redundancy and protection systems.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a pair of photocouplers for current sensing and voltage sensing in power converters. They achieve high accuracy through the inclusion of a ΔΣ (Delta Sigma) ADC. The TLP7820 and TLP7920 are analogue output type devices; digital output variants are planned for later this year. Target applications include servo amplifiers, inverters, power sources and photovoltaic inverters.

Toshiba has launched a series of 500mA LDO Regulator ICs that achieve the industry’s lowest-in-class drop-out voltages. The devices are suitable for power management applications in smartphones, tablets and other battery operated devices including wearables. To increase efficiency of these LDOs special attention is put on minimising the drop-out voltage at high output current and low output voltage operation.

Advances in MOSFET silicon and package technologies are critical to improving energy efficiency and reducing the heat generated during power conversion, says Georges Tchouangue, Toshiba Electronics Europe.

  Expanding its TL1L4 series of white LEDs, Toshiba Electronics Europe introduces four additions which provide a high luminous flux and are suited to applications such as street and stadium lighting, LED light bulbs and home lighting.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that its PX02SM Enterprise SSD series has achieved VMware Ready status. This designation indicates that after a detailed validation process the PX02SM Enterprise SSD series PX02SMB160 has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement, and can be found on the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX).

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched an SDHC card that combines Class 10 memory with TransferJet close proximity wireless transfer technology. The 16GB SDHC card, THN-J301W0160E6, will enable users of digital still cameras or camcorders to quickly transfer photos and videos to mobile devices such as tablets, notebooks and smartphones equipped with TransferJet adapters.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the launch of TZ1041MBG, an application processor designed for use in wearable devices such as activity monitoring products, smart watches, bracelet and glasses-type devices. The IC is the latest addition to Toshiba’s ApP Lite TZ1000 family of solutions for the IoT. The TZ1041MBG meets increasing market demand for IoT devices able to support multiple external sensors. 

Toshiba Electronics Europe has extended its range of EXCERIA memory cards. These additions are made up of a Compact Flash (CF) card, SD and MicroSD cards, all of which combine large capacity and high read and write speeds, making them suitable for full HD 4K video recording in a professional context.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its line up of High Voltage Intelligent Power Devices (HV-IPD) with the addition of a motor driver IC in a compact surface mount package that is rated to 600V. The TPD4152F enables a square-wave speed control of small BLDC electric motors. It is aimed at applications including air conditioners, air purifiers, fans, ventilators and water heaters.

Toshiba has announced the TXZ family of ARM Cortex-based MCUs, supporting low-power consumption and high-speed operation for IoT and M2M ecosystems. The TXZ family has been designed to meet market needs for low power consumption systems by integrating the ultra-low power design technologies adopted in Toshiba’s TZ series of ApP Lite application processor family for IoT solutions into current TX family of MCUs.

Toshiba has expanded its range of high performance BackSide Illumination (BSI) CMOS image sensors equipped with Phase Detection Auto-Focus (PDAF). Designed for use in smartphones and tablets, the sensors achieve high performance image capture and low power consumption. The range expansion features the 8MP T4KA3-121, the 16MP T4KC3-121, the 13MP T4KB3-121 and the 20MP T4KA7-121.

Toshiba has launched a wireless power receiver IC that will enable mobile devices to be charged wirelessly, as fast as if they were connected to the charger via a cable. The TC7764WBG supports a maximum power output of 5W and is compliant with the Qi standard’s low power specification V.1.1.2, defined by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC).

Toshiba has announced three SSD families fitted with high-speed PCIe interfaces that provide high-bandwidth point-to-point links with the processor and reduce system bottlenecks. The drives use the NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) protocol and have been designed for various applications including high performance, thin and 2-in-1/convertible notebooks, all-in-one PCs and tablets and server/storage applications.

Toshiba has announced the development of the world’s first 16-die (max.) stacked NAND flash memory utilising Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology. The prior art of stacked NAND flash memories are connected together with wire bonding in a package. TSV technology instead utilises the vertical electrodes and vias to pass through the silicon dies for the connection.

Toshiba has launched its latest generation of Bit Cost Scalable (BiCS) FLASH, a 3D stacked cell structure flash memory. Toshiba hails the device as the ‘world’s first’ 256Gb, 48-layer BiCS device, deploying industry-leading 3-bit-per-cell Triple-Level Cell (TLC) technology. BiCS FLASH is based on a leading-edge 48-layer stacking process that surpasses the capacity of mainstream two dimensional NAND Flash memory while enhanc...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced its next-gen enterprise Solid State Drives (eSSDs) designed for applications ranging from email servers, database servers, and virtualised enterprise file servers, to primary storage in read, write or mixed workload environments. The PX04S line features high-endurance, mid-endurance, value-endurance and read-intensive models optimised for different applications and workloads.

Toshiba has licensed the ARM Cortex-A53 processor, for deployment developing Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), such as ApP Liteapplication processors that offer well balanced power-efficiency and performance with 64-bit capability, and custom products such as Fit Fast Structured Array (FFSA) and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for industrial, networking, IoT, automotive and data storage products.

A flash memory embedded process based on 65nm logic process that uses less power than current mainstream technology has been announced by Toshiba. It has also announced a single-poly Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) process based on 130nm logic and analogue power process. Applying the optimal process to diverse applications will allow Toshiba to expand its product line-up in such areas as MCUs, wireless communication ICs, motor controller drivers and po...