Mixed Signal/Analog

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the industry's fastest monolithic 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 400 mega samples per second (MSPS). The new ADC provides unmatched performance of 11.1 effective number of bits (ENOB) at this speed, enabling high-bandwidth applications such as test and measurement instrumentation, software-defined radio, radar systems and communication instrumentation that were previously confined to le...

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATS) a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors, today announced its innovative buck converter in a TSOT-23 package optimized for driving high-brightness, 350mA LEDs at up 94 percent efficiency. The first device in a new family of buck converters, the CAT4201 incorporates Catalyst’s patent-pending switching control algorithm. This new architecture reduces system complexity, ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a pair of multi-channel, 24-bit industrial analog-to-digital converters which combine outstanding DC accuracy and AC performance with cost-effective integration. The ADS1274 (4-channel) and ADS1278 (8-channel) provide a delta-sigma simultaneous-sampling measurement system for demanding multi-channel signal acquisition applications, such as vibration analysis, medical monitoring, industrial and energy metering equi...

Intersil has introduced the ISL21400 digitally programmable tempco voltage reference as part of the newly formed pinPOINT family of precision analogue products. The product allows users to digitally set the temperature slope and DC voltage of its output to accurately compensate for temperature drifts elsewhere in the system.

Semtech has announced the SC416, a dual-output, synchronous step-down controller with comprehensive features to track start-up and shutdown voltages in notebook computers, portable devices, tablet PCs, and embedded applications. The SC416 requires battery input in the 5V-25V range. The highly accurate outputs are regulated to within 1% of specified levels and are adjustable from 0.75V to 5V, or can be configured with pre-set voltages consisting ...

Analog Devices’ new capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) is a highly integrated touch controller that allows designers to quickly and easily add responsive user controls, such as scroll wheels and touch pads, to portable electronic devices. As the newest addition to Analog Devices’ family of CapTouch controllers for consumer applications, the AD7147 provides highly accurate measurement and responsiveness, and features the addition o...

Analog Devices has extended its award-winning iSensorT intelligent sensor product family with an advanced motion sensor that for the first time allows industrial designers to easily and cost-effectively equip their products with full-range, multi-axis inertial sensing. Leveraging Analog Devices' iMEMS Motion Signal Processing TechnologyT, the ADIS16355 inertial measurement unit (IMU) delivers performance and functionality previously reserved for ...

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2499, a 16-channel delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that communicates via an I2C-compatible serial interface and includes a unique analog input architecture. The LTC2499's Easy Drive™ front-end design results in zero average differential input current, allowing measurements of high impedance input sources without the use of an internal buffer. This patented sampling scheme simplifies the desi...

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2912, a single undervoltage and overvoltage monitor for space-conscious applications. Housed in a tiny 3mm x 2mm DFN package, the voltage monitoring inputs of the LTC2912 include filtering to reject brief glitches, thus ensuring reliable reset operation without false or noisy triggering. Programmed by external resistors, the UV and OV trip thresholds have a guaranteed ±1.5% threshold accuracy of monitored ...

Analog Devices has expanded its RF solutions with the introduction of an RF amplifier portfolio of 12 new devices covering the complete RF signal chain. Combined with ADI’s industry-leading power detectors, modulators, demodulators, mixers, and synthesizer products, this offering allows designers to implement complete signal chain solutions using Analog Devices’ high-performance ICs, thereby simplifying the design process, streamlining supp...