Mixed Signal/Analog

Phyworks, a leader in analog and mixed signal ICs for high performance communications has shipped its 20 millionth chip. Despite todays economy, the company achieved its production landmark by shipping 10 million chips during the last 12 months.

Microchip has announced the MCP4728 Digital-to-Analogue Converter, said to be the industry’s first 12bit Quad DAC to include non-volatile EEPROM, enabling the DAC’s configuration to be loaded automatically during power-up. The on-board EEPROM, coupled with an internal voltage reference, four-channel architecture and rail-to-rail precision output amplifier, enables the MCP4728 DAC to significantly reduce the size and component cost in a varie...

Maxim has introduced the DS4432 low-cost, dual-channel, sink/source current DAC. This I2C-controlled, 7-bit current DAC features two output channels that are explicitly designed for power-supply margin testing and adjustment. Each output channel provides fine control of a DC-DC power supply by sinking or sourcing current directly into the power supply's feedback node.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si2170, a complete, globally-compliant hybrid TV tuner with analog TV demodulator in a single CMOS IC. Leveraging Silicon Labs’ proven digital low-IF architecture, the Si2170 is the industry’s first silicon TV tuner to exceed the performance of traditional discrete TV tuners, enabling TV makers to deliver improved picture quality and better reception for both analog and digital broadcasts.

Maxim has introduced the MAX11040 4-channel, 24-bit simultaneous-sampling ADC. Developed to enable unprecedented simplicity in system design, up to eight MAX11040 devices can be daisy-chained to provide a sampling capacity of up to 32 channels. The MAX11040 achieves this high capacity and scalability with a unique cascadable SPI(TM)/QSPI(TM)/MICROWIRE(TM) interface, which eliminates the complexity of using individual chip-select inputs to control...

Texas Instruments has introduced two system-on-chip solutions that enable customers to easily develop ultra-high performance analog-to-digital converter (ADC) front ends for precision applications including high-speed data acquisition, automated test equipment and medical imaging.

Murata Power Solutions has introduced a new quad sampling Analog to Digital (A/D) converter for image processing applications where low noise performance and the ability to convert full-scale step input signals at a 10MHz conversion rate is required. The ADSQ-1410 converter builds on a product family that already includes 10 MHz, 14-Bit dual and single A/D products.

Peregrine Semiconductor has announced the release of its newest UltraCMOS RFIC, the 50-ohm PE4150 quad MOSFET core device, ideal for mixer designs requiring low conversion loss and high linearity such as portable radios operating in bands from UHF through 900MHz. The PE4150 is a highly linear passive mixer that incorporates an integrated LO amplifier with exceptionally high LO isolation.

Microchip has announced the MCP2036 Analogue Front End for inductive touch-sensing applications. Complementing the company’s royalty-free mTouch Inductive Touch-Sensing solutions, the MCP2036 AFE works with almost any 8-, 16- or 32-bit PIC microcontroller or dsPIC Digital Signal Controller, making it even easier and more cost effective for designers to enhance user interfaces with inductive touch-sensing technology.

NXP has announced a broad commitment to high-speed data converters featuring the new JEDEC JESD204A serial interface standard. The JEDEC-based data converters lead NXP’s forthcoming portfolio of new high-speed 16-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs).