Mixed Signal/Analog

  Designer and manufacturer of analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor products, MagnaChip has announced the availability of 0.13 micron Multiple-Time Programmable Intellectual Property (MTP-IP) memory cores targeted for mobile and industrial applications.

An RF amplifier for CATV applications from MACOM Technology Solutions is available at Richardson RFPD along with full design support. The MAAM-011220 provides 18dB of ultra-flat gain while biased at either 8 or 5V. The amplifier provides excellent linearity, high gain, low noise and low distortion, making it ideally suited for 75Ω infrastructure applications.

The SX1261 and SX1262 LoRa transceivers from Semtech are in stock at Mouser Electronics. Designed for extended battery life with just 4.2mA of active receive current consumption, the SX126x sub-GHz radio transceivers are ideal for long-range RF wireless applications and are fully compliant with the physical layer requirements of the LoRaWAN specification released by the LoRa Alliance.

Reading analogue signals from the real world and then turning them into digital signals that a microcontroller (MCU) can understand is one of the most difficult tasks you will face when developing MCU-based sensor applications.

  A significant milestone has been announced by Dialog Semiconductor. The company has shipped over 3.5 billion Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMICs) to date. The milestone validates Dialog’s configurable technology, including the highly successful GreenPAK product family, as the choice for the market.  

A software product that meets the challenges of designing high reliability analogue and mixed-signal Integrated Circuits (ICs) for automotive, medical, industrial, and aerospace and defence applications has been introduced by Cadence Design Systems. The product is called the Legato Reliability Solution which provides analogue designers with the tools they need to manage their design’s reliability throughout the product life c...

The new F-712.PM1 high speed optical power meter from precision photonics alignment manufacturer PI (Physik Instrumente) converts optical signals and currents of photodiodes into a high resolution, logarithmic analog voltage signal. Its high bandwidth of 20kHz enables faster optical alignment, when used in conjunction with PI’s high speed FMPA photonics alignment systems for SiP (Silicon Photonics) applications.

The availability of a new galvanic isolation process technology that enables the fabrication of robust and reliable high voltage signal isolation solutions, has been announced by X-FAB Silicon Foundries. According to the company, the new process achieves best-in-class isolation performance. By leveraging it, X-FAB’s customers will be able to design their own capacitive or inductive couplers for a wide range of applications. ...

This video covers the fundamentals of PIR motion detector design, and analyses the differences between analogue and digital solutions.

The top ten IC suppliers in the $54.5bn analogue market last year accounted for 59% of the category’s worldwide sales in 2017, according to a recent monthly update to IC Insights’ 2018 McClean Report. Collectively, the top ten companies generated $32.3bn in analogue IC sales last year compared to $28.4bn in 2016, which was a 14% increase and a gain of two percentage points in market share during 2017, said the 50-page April ...