Products

Renesas Technology Europe has expanded its line-up of Renesas Starter Kits with the introduction of three kits for use with its SuperH microcontrollers. Renesas’ low cost RSKs are user friendly and supplied with board, display, debugger and software, which comprise a complete kit that saves on product development time.

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.

Responding to the demand for higher power portable applications, Power Sources Unlimited has announced the PUP150 Series of desktop AC/DC power supplies, which boasts 150W of power in a compact 6.73 x 2.85 x 1.57in package.

The Cherry range of computer keyboards and other input devices, which have been supplied throughout the world to manufacturers and specialist computer builders for many years, are now available directly to end users in the UK thanks to a joint venture between Cherry Keyboards and Horsham based electronics component distributor, Aerco.

Schaefer has announced the launch of its new Power Conversion Products Website. The updated site, www.schaeferpower.com has easy to use menu bars which link to all of Schaefer’s thousands of ac/dc power supplies, dc/dc converters, battery chargers, dc/ac pure sine wave inverters and other power conversion products.

Fairchild Semiconductor has announced the FPF250X series, a new family of its IntelliMAX devices with input voltages ranging from 4.5 up to 20V. These highly integrated load switches provide full protection against potentially damaging overcurrent conditions affecting low-power designs including industrial, telecom, medical, notebook and consumer applications. The FPF250X devices simplify design, reduce component count and minimize board space by...

AnalogicTech’s AAT1162 DC/DC converter’s low quiescent current significantly lowers the system’s total stand-by mode current consumption, thereby improving total power efficiency and enabling designers to more easily achieve green certifications. The AAT1162 is the first in a family of synchronous step-down DC/DC converters designed to operate from a 12V input and deliver up to 1.5A to 5V or lower outputs. Consuming an extremely low 115µA ...

Tektronix has announced that it has successfully validated the performance of the new Intel 100 meter Infiniband cable operating at speeds up to 20 Gb/s. The world’s longest InfiniBand optical cable has an electrical interface on either end and uses four serial data lanes at 5 Gb/s each. The cable will be useful in accelerating the performance of large computing clusters. The cables will be used as the part of the backbone network at the Int...

PULS announces the introduction of a new low cost product range. The CS Series is based on the market leading Dimension QS product range but with a much reduced feature-set, which enables very competitive pricing. These single-phase power supplies continue to demonstrate PULS’s design excellence and reliability, while being priced to compete directly with low cost imports from the Far East.

Powerstax has announced a family of ultra-compact 275W switch mode power supplies. The N-0275 series units feature digital power management and optional PMBus™ capability. The N-0275 family has been designed for OEM applications such as industrial automation, telecommunications, gaming systems, security and surveillance systems and network servers. The compact, very low profile form-factor power supplies deliver 12.22 watts per inch³ power de...