Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a 16-channel LED driver that combines comprehensive brightness control with a built-in PWM grey scale capability. The TB62721 is ideal for traffic signs, information boards and other high quality large panel displays requiring the accurate and reliable control of multiple colour LEDs.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a microcontroller that can be certified to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3) and Automotive SIL D (ASILD) while significantly reducing associated system cost and performance overheads. The Toshiba SIL3/ASILD implementation delivers a more cost-effective solution than alternative methods owing to the fact that it has a smaller chip size, smaller program requirement and better performance than conventional du...

Toshiba’s new microcontroller features an LCD controller for STN/TFT colour displays up to a maximum of 1024 x 768 pixels, a touch screen interface and an image process accelerator that provides on-chip scaling, filtering and image blending at resolutions up to 800 x 480 pixels.

Toshiba Corporation has announced an expanded line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives based on the company’s 32nm Multi-Level- Cell NAND flash memories. The new drives include the industry's first 128-gigabyte Half-Slim /mSATA SG Series SSD modules, ideally suited for a variety of applications including mini-mobile and netbook PCs, and the HG Series that delivers all the high level performance and endurance essential for notebook compute...

Toshiba Corporation has announced the launch of a 64 gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry. The chip is the flagship device in a new line-up of six embedded NAND flash memory modules that offer full compliance with the latest e•MMC TM standard, and that are designed for application in a wide range of digital consumer products, including smartphones, mobile phones, netbooks and digital...

Toshiba has announced a range of ultra-low-power optically coupled isolators designed to drive IGBTs and power MOSFETs in applications requiring output currents up to ±6.0A. The new TLP358 family of driver IC photocouplers is ideal for industrial inverters, AC/DC servos, induction heating systems, factory automation equipment and other applications that require high output current driver stages.

Toshiba has announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS technology. The technology opens the door to a future generation of LSI fabricated with bulk CMOS technology, the mainstream technology in today's LSI, by achieving the world's first practical fabrication process applicable to 20nm generation CMOS devices.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET1 cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and magnetic moment inherent in electrons. Toshiba has fabricated a spintronics cell and verified its stable performance for the first time, and will present full details of the cell and its technologies at the International Electronics Devices Meeting2 in Balti...

Ceravision Ltd, the inventor and world leader in High Efficiency Plasma (HEP) technology, has formed a strategic alliance with Toshiba Electronics to accelerate development of advanced magnetrons for lighting applications. Tim Reynolds, Ceravision’s CEO, stated: “We are delighted to have Toshiba Electronics as our partner. This programme will allow us to further develop the efficiency of our technology with a world class provider. Our suppl...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a new series of CMOS bus switches that provide an ultra-compact solution for bi-directional voltage translation and efficient isolation between host and peripheral ICs.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced two new integrated constant current LED drivers that provide high accuracy and fast response time in a small SSOP package. These eight-channel devices reduce component count and board space requirements in applications that use displays with multiple LEDs.

Toshiba has launched a family of low-voltage, low-capacitance switches that provide bus switching for applications requiring high-speed bidirectional data transfer. Devices in the new TC7MBL/WBL/SBLxxxxC family will suit a variety of designs requiring high-speed bus switching and isolation including mobile phones, digital cameras, consumer electronics equipment and flat panel displays.

The ASIC and Foundry Business Unit at Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced that European ASIC and system-on-chip (SoC) customers can now take advantage of eFUSE (electrical programmable fuse) technology when developing ICs based on Toshiba processes.

Toshiba has announced the launch of a new CMOS image sensor that will bring 14.6 million pixels to digital still cameras and to mobile phones supporting video imaging. The sensor, the latest addition to Toshiba’s “Dynastron” line-up, is also the company’s first to integrate the enhanced sensitivity offered by back-side illumination technology (BSI). Sampling of the new sensor will begin in December and mass production will follow from the...

Toshiba has announced the launch of a new CMOS image sensor that will bring 14.6 million pixels to digital still cameras and to mobile phones supporting video imaging. The sensor, the latest addition to Toshiba’s “Dynastron” line-up, is also the company’s first to integrate the enhanced sensitivity offered by back-side illumination technology (BSI). Sampling of the new sensor will begin in December and mass production will follow from the...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has expanded its family of ultra-high-speed, efficient CMOS interface ICs with a miniature, low-power CMOS switch IC for use in USB 2.0 applications. The TC7USB221 is a USB 2.0 dual single pole double throw (SPDT) bus switch with low ON resistance and low pin capacitance, making it ideal for Hi-Speed USB operation with data rates up to 480Mbps. A typical application for the IC would be a multiplexer/demultiplexer...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that the TrueSTUDIO development environment from Swedish embedded systems specialist Atollic is now available for the company’s range of ARM926EJ-S and ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. Two versions of the environment can be supplied: Atollic TrueSTUDIO Lite, which, while completely free-of-charge, delivers high levels of functionality; and the low-cost Atollic TrueSTUDIO Professional, which provides furt...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the latest device in the company’s Capricorn family of highly integrated, scalable system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for driving and managing high-quality automotive displays. Targeted at digital instrument clusters and head up display (HUD) applications, Capricorn-F is the first Capricorn device to provide support for 3D graphics and to incorporate APIX Gigabit digital serial data link transmission. ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a new family of integrated constant current LED drivers that provide very high levels of ESD protection while significantly reducing component count and board space in applications built around multiple LEDs.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the development of the latest range of active-matrix colour thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCD) for the industrial market. The new display modules incorporate light-emitting diode (LED) backlight technology offering exceptional long life performance with 100,000 hours mean time between failure (MTBF)1. The market leading modules are designed to satisfy a broad range of industrial...