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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced a new single-stage LED lighting pulse width modulation (PWM) controller. The TRIAC-dimmable solution regulates LED current and also achieves near unity power factor. The reference design can achieve 85 percent efficiency, which enables high-density, small form factor designs. The TPS92210 is designed for general lighting applications, such as commercial and residential recessed, trof...

Rochester Electronics, the world's largest authorized manufacturer and distributor of end-of-life and mature semiconductors, has re-created the Intersil Corporation (formerly of Harris Corporation) avionics-level HIP0081 quad-inverting power drives with serial diagnostic interface devices. Rochester's Semiconductor Replication ProcessTM (SRPTM) guarantees that the Rochester-manufactured parts exactly match the form, fit, and function of the origi...

Electronic engineering students will have the chance to get up-close and personal with Digi-Key Corporation during Superstudium – Future Professionals Day, Friday, Nov. 12 at the electronica 2010 trade show in Munich, Germany.

See the latest images from electronica 2010 from our crack editorial team who have been pounding the trade show floor since the doors opened...

Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation's WiFi Hotspot at electronica 2010 in Munich, Germany is located in Hall B4, booth 442. At the Digi-Key WiFi Hotspot, electronica attendees can check their e-mail, browse the Internet, or take a break from the action by accessing Digi-Key's wireless connection.

At the electronica 2010 conference in Munich today, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) and its partners will launch a pan-European field trial of the eCall emergency system, which automatically calls emergency operators in the event of a road accident. eCall sends vital data such as the time of the accident and the GPS coordinates of the accident point, and the number of vehicle occupants to a Public Safety Accident Point (PSAP).

There are many East Asian manufacturers – with headquarters in China, Japan or Taiwan, for example – that make high-quality, reliable electromechanical and optoelectronic components. But what differentiates these companies from one another? And what makes a specific vendor attractive for customers/users – particularly here in Europe?

SUYIN offers many different types of board-to-board (BTB) connectors. This broad selection begins with versions featuring contact configurations that range from very simple to highly complex and cover a wide variety of pitches – from 0.5 mm (fine pitch) all the way to 2.54 mm. The fact that the overwhelming majority of these products are custom solutions comes as no surprise, because SUYIN is one of the very few East Asian connector vendors tha...

The more mobile our society becomes, the stronger the demand for battery-powered devices. SUYIN offers the right battery connector for nearly any kind of application, from mobile phones and notebooks to portable devices for industrial, automotive, and medical device applications. And if the tremendous range of ready-to-order battery connector solutions (with well over 1,000 different variants) does not include the solution that you are looking fo...

Everlight Electronics again expands the Lighting Series component portfolio and introduces the Yi Series - a high power, high brightness and economic (superb $/lm) LED family with 5W power consumption in a compact ceramic package.