Products

GOEPEL electronic a world-class vendor of JTAG/Boundary Scan solutions compliant with IEEE Std. 1149.x, introduced the ScanBooster/USB-FXT as an additional high-performance but low cost controller. The new controller is based on a USB2.0 interface and complements the already existing ScanBooster™ product range by externally coupled test heads. This gives a solution for problems of critical TAP accesses to ATE fixtures and HASS/HALT application...

Linear Technology has announced the LTC3543, a high efficiency, 2.25 MHz, synchronous buck regulator that can deliver up to 600mA of continuous output current from a 2mm x 3mm DFN package. The LTC3543 can run in either a constant 2.25MHz frequency, spread spectrum or synchronized phase lock loop (PLL) mode, offering multiple choices for very low noise operation. Its current mode architecture operates from an input voltage range of 2.5V to 5.5V, m...

Ramtron International has announced that Daesung-Eltec Co. Ltd. of Korea has designed FRAM memory into its new digital signal processing (DSP)-based car audio platform. Daesung-Eltec selected the FM24C64 - a 64-kilobit FRAM with 2-wire serial interface – to enable sophisticated memory functions such as storing audio, channel and favourite artist/song settings, as well as the resume play and the favourite artist/song alert features. FRAM’s n...

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...

Rapid has recently extended its range of power LED products from the pioneering Taiwan-based Edison Opto Corp. Over one hundred lines are now available, ex-stock, ranging from the competitively priced 1W Edixeon stars and emitters through to the 700 lumens 20W EdiPower devices. All are available in red, green and blue, white and warm white.

Avago Technologies has announced a new line of high brightness red, amber, and orange PLCC-4 surface mount technology (SMT) LEDs for use in interior and exterior automotive and electronic signs and signals applications. These competitively priced top-mounted lensed LEDs provide high reliability, a narrow 50-degree viewing angle and a matched radiation pattern.

Texas Instruments has introduced its smallest 2.25-MHz high-performance, step-down DC/DC converters, which support low-power DSPs and microcontroller-based portable electronics. Extending battery life in Bluetooth headsets, cell phones and other Li-Ion battery-powered applications, the high-performance converters save valuable board space.

MEAN WELL has added a 15W single output series to its high reliability miniature product family. The RS-15 series is MEAN WELL’s most miniature AC/DC enclosed type switching power supplies that can provide 15W by only free air convection.

An overview of the most recent product introductions from knitter-switch, Europe’s largest switch manufacturer, is available now in a new short-form catalogue. 15 pages of new products for consumer, industrial, medical, telecomms, broadcast and instrumentation applications and full contact details for knitter-switches offices throughout Europe and Asia are contained in the catalogue which is available free by contacting your local sales office,...

Silicon Laboratories has announced what it says is the world’s smallest low-loss high-accuracy AC current sensors for a wide range of power applications. The Si8500 family measures up to 20 amps of current for control and protection in power systems and is ideal for a broad range of applications including ac-dc switching power supplies, isolated dc-dc supplies, motor control and electronic ballasts for lighting.