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STMicroelectronics today introduced new smart pushbutton ‘on/off’ controller ICs that will improve the user experience for virtually any battery-powered portable device, including e-readers, tablets, media players, smartphones and digital cameras. These new chips will enable next-generation mobile products to offer easy-to-use ‘power-up’, ‘power-down’ and ‘unfreeze/reset’ functions that will prevent damage to the end-user product...

Fairchild continues to meet customers’ needs for a compact, flexible solution that saves power while enabling more features in today’s battery-operated, portable electronics. The FAN5341 is a highly efficient LED driver solution that improves brightness and resolution in portable designs, while offering 32 linear dimming steps and driving up to five white LEDs in series. By driving the LEDs in series this device ensures that all the LEDs used...

Fairchild continues to meet customers’ needs for a compact, flexible solution that saves power while enabling more features in today’s battery-operated, portable electronics. The FAN5341 is a highly efficient LED driver solution that improves brightness and resolution in portable designs, while offering 32 linear dimming steps and driving up to five white LEDs in series. By driving the LEDs in series this device ensures that all the LEDs used...

Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical components for wireless systems and other advanced electronics applications, today announced the release of its enhanced BTM410/411 and BTM420/421 Bluetooth radio modules.

Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical components for wireless systems and other advanced electronics applications, today announced the release of its enhanced BTM410/411 and BTM420/421 Bluetooth radio modules.

Mobidapter, newly introduced by Saelig Company, Inc. , is a USB memory stick reader which plugs directly into the SD memory slot on mobile/cell phones, smart phones and PDAs, permitting - for the first time - reliable, rapid transfer of files from USB sources. Just insert Mobidapter to a phone's SD slot, connect it to a USB memory device, and - in an instant - text files, images, PowerPoint files, can be e-mailed. Now files can be transferred any...

Mobidapter, newly introduced by Saelig Company, Inc. , is a USB memory stick reader which plugs directly into the SD memory slot on mobile/cell phones, smart phones and PDAs, permitting - for the first time - reliable, rapid transfer of files from USB sources. Just insert Mobidapter to a phone's SD slot, connect it to a USB memory device, and - in an instant - text files, images, PowerPoint files, can be e-mailed. Now files can be transferred any...

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s first integrated HDMI interface companion chip to the core HDMI controller for portable applications. The TPD12S015 incorporates all of the components required for an HDMI interface, including eight low-capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamps, I2C level shifters, and a DC/DC converter, saving 75 percent the board space and significantly reducing overall system cost when compared to discre...

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s first integrated HDMI interface companion chip to the core HDMI controller for portable applications. The TPD12S015 incorporates all of the components required for an HDMI interface, including eight low-capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamps, I2C level shifters, and a DC/DC converter, saving 75 percent the board space and significantly reducing overall system cost when compared to discre...

Murata MAGICSTRAP UHF RFID solution is now available for close-coupling applications, enabling significant reductions in close-coupled UHF RFID tag size. The MAGICSTRAP tag requires no external antenna and allows manufacturers to effectively reduce the size of a close-coupled UHF RFID tag to 3.2 x 1.6mm.