Passives

Avago Technologies today announced the addition of three new innovative flat gain, high linearity low noise, gain blocks that can be used as a broadband gain block or radio frequency (RF) driver amplifier MMIC. Housed in an industry standard SOT-89 package measuring 4.5mm by 4.1mm by 1.5 mm, Avago’s MGA-30x89 series now covers frequency bands from 40 to 6000MHz and only requires a simple DC biasing match. Moreover, no additional RF matching...

PETERMANN-TECHNIK’s smallest SMD crystal is 2.5 x 2.0 x 0.6 mm in size and is available with a frequency range of 12 to 40 MHz and frequency tolerances of +-10 ppm and above.

Continuing its policy of continuous improvement, knitter-switch has entirely redesigned its popular MT and MP families of toggle and pushbutton switches. In doing so, knitter-switch has not only made significant improvements to the component parts of the switches, but has also optimized the production process allowing the company to reduce the lead times for standard switches by two-thirds. Even customer specific special variants can be supplied ...

The versatile DS Series illuminated, momentary pushbutton switch offers four color choices with optional single OR dual LEDs. This PC mount switch offers SPST and DPST switch function. With full actuator illumination or pin LED, the DS Series switch offers design engineers versatility in a small package.

In niche markets with limited space, customers often look for a solution where SMD fuses should be replacable without soldering. The successful standard UMT 250 has been extended for this reason with a clip option.

Fairchild Semiconductor offers designers of High Definition LCD-TVs, Blue Ray DVD players and HD set-top boxes a 6-Channel integrated video filter with 1080p HD capability. This new device simultaneously supports three channels of 1080p HD with filtering at 75 MHz and three channels of SD at 8 MHz.

Cherry subminiature switches and sensors from ZF Electronics are used to improve salt usage and regeneration in water softeners more effectively than competitive products due to two factors: Cherry subminiature switches can be supplied in a space-saving module package and Cherry sensors offer greater dimensional consistency due to a special low-pressure mould process used in their manufacture.

C&K Components has developed two new families of high-reliability rocker switches. Designated the AR3 and SR3 Series, the analog and switch rockers feature life cycles to two million and one million actuations, respectively.

Vishay Intertechnology has announced the release of a new series of aluminum solid capacitors featuring conductive polymer technology that offers high ripple currents, high voltages, and high-temperature performance in five case sizes.

Designed specifically for USB 3.0 applications, Taiyo Yuden’s new CM01S600 Common Mode Choke Coil is the first in the industry to deliver a 10 GHZ cut off frequency. A 25% higher cut off frequency improvement is achieved through the CM01S600’s use of an extremely precise wire-wound structure. A higher cut off frequency is especially necessary with the improvements in USB technology.