Mixed Signal/Analog

Health care diagnostic imaging devices, from customary prenatal care to advanced cardiac imaging equipment, are increasingly expected to provide more precise images, while also becoming more portable. To meet these demands, Texas Instruments has introduced the AFE5818 and AFE5816 families, which are claimed to be the industry’s first 16-channel ultrasound AFEs.

Linear introduces the LTC2380-24, a breakthrough no latency 24-bit 2Msps SAR ADC. The LTC2380-24 features an integrated digital filter that averages 1 to 65,536 conversion results real time, dramatically improving the dynamic range from 101dB at 1.5Msps to 145dB at an output data rate of 30.5sps. This makes the LTC2380-24 suitable for seismic, medical and other applications demanding high dynamic range.

Analog Devices has introduced an electrometer-grade operational amplifier that enables chemical analysis instruments to achieve the highest level of precision and data repeatability over a wider temperature range in a compact solution that reduces overall BOM and design footprint. The ADA4530-1 op amp achieves this with an input bias current that is at least 20 times lower than competing devices.

Lauterbach has announced that its TRACE32 debugging technology supports Trace for Texas Instruments KeyStone C66x DSP devices. The C66x series includes a wide range of high performance microprocessors. The processing capability of the multicore platform is designed to be optimal for applications in markets such as industrial automation, high performance computing, mission critical, video infrastructure and high-end imaging.

Saving space and extending the battery life of devices such as smartphones, wearable accessories and voice recorders, ON Semiconductor has released its latest high-resolution audio processing SoC with 1,656kB SRAM and power-efficient hardware acceleration. A large selection of royalty- and license-free DSP code samples are also available to accelerate software design and minimise development costs.

VATICS has licensed CEVA's imaging and vision DSP for its next-gen SoCs targeting surveillance and smart network cameras. VATICS will leverage the powerful computer vision and scene analytics capabilities of the DSP to greatly improve image quality and enable a new level of intelligent surveillance.

Socionext has licensed and deployed the CEVA imaging and vision DSP to power its latest-gen Milbeaut image processing LSI chips targeting surveillance, digital SLR, drones, action and other camera-enabled devices. The first Milbeaut image processor integrating the CEVA DSP is the MB86S27 which will shortly be in volume production.

In the quest for increased performance, flexibility, configurability, communications and remote monitoring and control, the power electronics industry is increasingly moving from analogue to digital power converters, particularly when high-density power output is required. Many mission-critical operations in aerospace and defence, as well as some industrial applications, require high output power in the multi-kilowatt range.

Keith Taylor, Vice President of Licensing and Acquisitions, InventionShare, has announced that InventionShare is now looking for licensing partners to license Circuit Seed circuit designs as an alternative to traditional low power analogue devices. Mr. Taylor said that traditional analogue devices can be made to function at very low power levels, however, there are many short comings with these devices as these circuits are complicated and diffic...

The ADS4149 is the lowest power 14-bit, 250MS/s ADC on the market. Consuming just 275mW, the ADS4149 reduces ADC power budget 30% over alternative 14-bit 250MS/s devices.