Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has expanded its family of integrated devices for digital television applications by launching a single-chip H.264/VC-1 video decoder IC. The new TC90490XBG decoder will help designers of high definition (HD) televisions, digital set top boxes and IPTV-based applications to quickly build both H.264 and VC-1 decoding functions into their applications. The IC is designed to work with an external scaling and proces...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has launched a single chip solution for television manufacturers looking to improve picture quality through the conversion of conventional 50Hz and 60Hz frame rates to 100Hz and 120Hz respectively. In addition to reducing component count, the new device is the first fully integrated IC to support full high definition video applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has launched a new product guide that will help engineers quickly and easily compare and select the most suitable LEDs for their target applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has expanded its family of low power bus switches with two ultra-miniature, dual supply devices that are ideal for applications such as I2C level shifting. The TC7WPB306 and TC7WPB307 are high-speed CMOS 2-bit dual supply bus switches that can provide an interface between two nodes at differing voltage levels. Ultra-small packaging and low power operation make them particularly suitable for portable and other bat...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the availability of a new demonstration kit that will allow engineers to rapidly assess the company’s latest high brightness surface mount LED devices. The Toshiba SMD LED Demo Kit showcases 33 of the company’s LEDs delivering a total of ten different colour options. Pushbuttons allow the user to illuminate all of the LEDs for each individual colour, which include green, yellow, orange, red, blu...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has expanded its TOSLINK family of fibre optic devices with new high-speed modules designed for Fast Ethernet fibre networks. The new duplex transceiver and simplex transmitter and receiver modules are ideal for motion control systems and other applications requiring Fast Ethernet links in industrial environments.

The new TLP3082 power triac photocoupler from Toshiba Electronics Europe features reinforced insulation and 5kV isolation voltage for AC safety applications. Specified with an off-state voltage of 800V, Toshiba’s TLP3082 consists of a zero-crossing (ZC) photo-triac optically coupled to a gallium arsenide (GaAs) infrared emitting diode. Maximum inhibit voltage for zero-crossing is just 20V, contributing to reduction of EMI emissions.

Toshiba has expanded its line of small-format, high-speed, high-capacity memory cards with the announcement of the launch of a 4-gigabyte microSDHC card. The addition of the new card extends Toshiba’s range of microSDHC cards, the preferred memory card for mobile phone applications, from 256MB up to 4GB.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of white LEDs with a new device that can provide a typical flux of 30lumens (lm) from a driving current of 250mA. The new TL12W01-D surface mount LED has dimensions of just 7.0mm x 5.0mm x 2.1mm and will be ideal for many domestic and commercial lighting applications that have conventionally used incandescent bulbs. In addition, it is anticipated that designers will choose these compact devices f...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a high efficiency white LED that provides double the brightness of previous devices in the same form factor. Supplied in a standard, compact package, the new TLWK1100B LED delivers typical luminous intensity levels of 1500mcd from a drive current of only 20mA.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the industry’s first single-chip sensorless motor controller application specific standard product (ASSP) to offer full-wave sine wave PWM motor drive output. The new TB6582FG will significantly reduce the complexity and component count of brushless DC (BLDC) motor applications ranging from home appliances and pumps to industrial automation and automotive motion control.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a new generation of single-chip inverters for brushless DC motor applications operating with voltages up to 500V. Available in PWM and non-PWM versions, the new devices integrate into a DIP26 package full three-phase inverter bridge operation and other key features including protection and integrated bootstrap diodes.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the first device in a new Ultra High Speed family of ESD protection diodes aimed at interface protection applications for high-speed data ports, for example, USB2.0 interfaces. With handheld and portable devices, including mobile phones and digital cameras, integrating ever more functionality into increasingly smaller form factors, providing electrostatic discharge protection becomes even more impor...

Toshiba’s latest compact 8-bit CMOS microcontroller combines 16kByte of SuperFlash memory with a large number of serial interfaces and new analogue IP blocks for LVD (low voltage detector) and POR (power on reset) functionality. The TMP86FH92 is based on Toshiba’s low-power, high-performance TLCS870/C core and is ideally suited to automotive and industrial applications including actuator control, sensor interfacing and power supervision. A ...

Dr Tohru Furuyama, the general manager for Toshiba Corporation’s Centre for Semiconductor Research and Development, will present a keynote address on the topic of system-on-chip (SoC) development at the opening session of this year’s DATE Conference in Nice, France.

Toshiba Corporation, reinforcing its leadership in the development and fabrication of powerful, high density NAND flash memory, has announced the introduction of 16Gb (2 gigabyte) and 8Gb (1 gigabyte) NAND flash memory, fabricated with cutting-edge 56-nanometer process technology co-developed with SanDisk Corporation.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the latest enhancement to its extensive line-up of SD Memory Cards: a 4-gigabyte (GB) Class 6 SDHC Card; a 4GB Class 4 miniSDHC Card; and a 2GB microSD Memory Card. The new SDHC and miniSDHC cards will be available worldwide from March, and the microSD will be launched worldwide during April.

Toshiba has announced the latest addition to its new series of high-capacity SDHC Memory Cards: the industry’s first 8-gigabyte Class 4 memory card. The new card will be introduced in early January 2007, alongside the 4GB products launched in September, and will give Toshiba a larger commercially available line-up in high performance SD Memory Cards.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced that digital television design house TVonics has developed a new module design targeted at terrestrial iDTV applications using one of the company’s digital video broadcast (DVB) system-on-chip (SoC) processors.

Use of logic ICs in consumer, communication, industrial and other applications is constantly increasing, with many designs typically using separate logic ICs to deliver the various logic functions. Now, however, Toshiba offers a configurable IC solution that enables parallel implementation of three different logic functions in a single package.