Mixed Signal/Analog

Ginsbury has added an 18.5in. projected capacitive (PCAP) touch panel from Ocular. The new touch panel is part of Ocular's Crystal Touch: TRUE Multi-Touch PLUS standard product line. The panels provide a true multi-touch interface with a pre-integrated, optically bonded, soda-lime cover glass with a decorative black border. 

The DA7202, introduced today by Dialog Semiconductor, is a powerful and highly efficient low EMI Class D speaker driver designed with a small footprint in order to keep devices, such as the increasingly popular Ultrabook, as light and compact as possible. The DA7202 provides greater power output and improved efficiency levels for Ultrabooks, tablets and speaker accessories powered by a dual cell battery pack.

Texas Instruments announce the industry’s first Class-D amplifier, delivering 7 W from a miniature QFN package. Half the package size of discrete amplifiers with comparable output, the TPA3131D2 Class-D stereo amplifier produces size-defying sound for ultrabooks, Bluetooth speakers, and tablet and ultrabook docking stations. Delivering longer standby battery life, the TPA3131D2 produces more than three times the power output compared to hi...

Designed for applications including advanced hearing aids and hearing implant devices, the new Ezairo 7100 series of integrated circuits and packaged hybrids has been introduced today by ON Semiconductor. Featuring five times the processing power of previous systems, the Ezairo 7100 system-on-chips provide built-in flexibility supporting evolving algorithm, wireless and system-level needs.

Exar announce pin compatible replacements for the 110MHz Analog Devices AD8051, AD8052 and 150MHz AD8054 single, dual and quad (respectively) operational amplifiers. The XR805x family of high-speed operational amplifiers is intended for applications including video distribution and surveillance systems to achieve optimal performance and lower overall system power consumption.

The family of Vlinx Modbus Communications Gateways from B&B Electronics has been expanded to include the new MESP211. The MESP211 is a low-cost, compact gateway designed to convert Modbus ASCII or Modbus RTU serial signals into Modbus TCP Ethernet.

It may not look or act quite the way it used to, but the 8051 is far from gone. Tom David Principal Design Engineer, Microcontroller Products, Silicon Labs, discusses further in this ES Design magazine article.

Incorporating power and intelligence can satisfy the stringent requests of the automotive market when using Class D audio power amplifiers. By Edoardo Botti, Design Architect Princ. Eng. II with STMicroelectronics, and Marco Gaeta, Technical Marketing Manager at ST.

  Music enthusiasts place considerable value on the perfect sound and top audiophile technology, a sound experience that is only created with high-end hi-fi components. Uwe Rahn, FAE Regional Manager at Rutronik, explores more in this article from ES Design magazine.

The benefits of a clock buffer and distributor that converts a sine wave reference signal into a pair of differential LVPECL clocks to drive high speed ADCs while minimising introduced jitter. Michel Azarian, Senior Applications Engineer with Linear Technology, explores further in this ES Design magazine article.