Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the availability of a new high-power, high-brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications. The TL12W02-D device can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens from a driving current of only 250mA.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a general-purpose ARM Cortex-M3 core-based microcontroller suitable for digital AV applications. The device is the first in a full line-up of Cortex-M3 devices that will become available during 2009 and is the first ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller from a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer. Samples will be available in December 2008 and mass production will start in March 2009.

Toshiba has announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-Flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of an industry-leading density of 256-gigabyte (GB) SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for netbook computers ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) and other mobile and peripheral applications. The new drives will be showcased at the CEATEC in Makuhari, Japan, from September 30 to October 4.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of highly integrated single-chip motor drive solutions with a three-phase sine wave PWM driver that will lower the component count, reduce the noise and improve the efficiency of brushless DC (BLDC) motor applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the first products from its new DTMOS II family of rugged, high-efficiency, high-speed power MOSFETs. The new 600V power MOSFETs combine a very low on resistance (RDS(on)) and reduced gate charge (Qg) to deliver an RDS(on) x Qg ‘figure of merit’ that is 15% lower than the company’s existing DTMOS I range and 68% lower than conventional MOSFET s.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has launched a range of miniature digital output magnetic sensors that combine high levels of sensitivity with low power operation. The TCS10xxx- family of devices is ideally suited to non-contact switching applications including open/close sensing for home appliances, digital cameras and mobile phones.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of miniature photocouplers with a new extended temperature device suitable for applications including switching power supplies, programmable controllers and AC/DC input modules.

Toshiba Electronics has launched a comprehensive lineup of miniature small signal MOSFETs that have lowest driving voltage of 1.2V with low on resistance. Enabling further reduction in switching voltages for battery operated equipment, the devices within the new SSMx35 MOSFET series operate with a gate drive voltage (VGS) of just 1.2V and are ideally suited to high-speed and analogue switching in portable, battery-powered equipment. The series ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the availability of a suite of human-machine interface (HMI) modelling tools for its Capricorn automotive display processor family. The tools, developed by Altia, enable designers of TFT instrument clusters for automotive applications to swiftly develop demonstrations, working prototypes and complete systems.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the launch of a new range of SD format Flash memory cards that offer the widest choice for all uses from premium consumer applications to high-speed professional requirements.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) is now offering the ARM Cortex-A9MP and the ARM Cortex-R4F processor cores for use with the company’s full range of ASIC technologies - including processes down to 40nm. With local support from Toshiba’s European LSI Design and Engineering Centre (ELDEC), European customers can choose the ARM cores to improve performance, reduce power consumption and minimise board space in ASIC and ASSP designs for applicatio...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a new system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification platform that will significantly shorten ASIC and ASSP development time. The CPS (Chip-Package-System) co-design/co-verification platform supports the rapid identification of the optimum SoC package as well as delivering the cost/performance benefits and improving verification accuracy prior to hardware prototyping.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the successful completion of an ASIC development project with video codec and processing specialist Logipard, subsidiary of Anoto Group AB. The fabless semiconductor manufacturer has used Toshiba’s renowned process technology and the company’s local engineers to create an advanced, low power ASIC. This ASIC is targeted for video processing applications being developed by Logipard customers.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of motion control development platforms with a new evaluation board that will speed implementation of sensorless drives for three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors. The new board is ideal for testing and prototyping drives for motion control applications requiring motor bridge voltages ranging from around 10V to 42V.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a new miniature photocoupler that combines an isolation voltage rating of 3.75kV with switching speeds that are up to two and a half times faster than previously available devices.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has launched a new two-phase stepper motor driver that delivers double the resolution to micro-stepping applications than previous devices. The TB6560A combines 1/16th step resolution with very high output current capability, making it ideal for high accuracy, microcontroller-free micro-stepping control in office automation and industrial applications. In more complex systems the TB6560A can be used to reduce the ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has launched an evaluation platform that will simplify and speed the development of brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives used in applications ranging from home appliances and pumps to industrial automation and automotive motion control.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has extended its family of SiGe amplifiers by integrating a low noise amplifier (LNA) with a bypass function into a single MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit). The TA4029 helps to minimise power consumption in applications such as mobile TV. It also offers improved dynamic range and distortion characteristics of the tuner circuit by switching to low power bypass mode when high gain operation is not needed. T...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a second successful collaboration with DS2, the leading supplier of Universal Powerline Association (UPA) ICs. This time DS2 has used Toshiba’s renowned process technology including special developed ADC, DAC and PLL for the rapid development of a next generation, low-cost and low-power 100Mbps powerline communications (PLC) chipset targeted at consumer networking applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of low drop out (LDO) voltage regulators with a new series of CMOS devices that offer high ripple rejection ratio, low quiescent current, and very low output noise voltage.