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1.5A Battery Charger Device Lowers Portable Product Design Costs
Semtech Corp has announced the SC804, a linear, single-cell Lithium-Ion battery charger with battery pack and adapter flexibility features to support lower design costs for portable devices.
Cree Demonstrates High Quality 150-mm Silicon Carbide Substrates
Cree announced today that it has achieved a major breakthrough in the development and wide scale commercialization of silicon carbide (SiC) technology with the demonstration of high quality, 150-mm SiC substrates with micropipe densities of less than 10/cm2. The current Cree standard for SiC substrates is 100-mm diameter material.
Atmel - Flexible Architecture for Low-Cost Custom Defined SoC Development
Atmel has announced a new custom architecture for 90nm SiliconCity ASIC development, providing up to 350K gates/mm2, offering customers gate densities in the range of a standard cell ASIC. SiliconCity Flexible Architecture allows designers to create their own unique base wafer architecture for multiple product variations while generously reducing customer design time, lowering the NRE and reducing risk through design reuse.
NXP claims first fully integrated Doherty amplifiers
NXP Semiconductors has launched what it says is the world’s first fully integrated Doherty amplifiers for TD-SCDMA and WCDMA base stations, expanding its extensive portfolio of industry-leading RF power transistors. Maintaining NXP’s RF technology innovation, the advanced BLD6G21-50 and BLD6G22-50 fully integrated amplifiers offer ease-of-design while delivering unsurpassed efficiency of > 40% at an average power of 10W. This enables 35% low...
NXP Broadcast Power Amplifier Achieves Breakthrough DVB-T Efficiency
At CCBN2011 today, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced new additions to its Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and FM broadcast product portfolio, including the BLF888B transistor. Configured as a Doherty power amplifier, the BLF888B achieves breakthrough 50 percent DVB-T efficiency, offering significant reductions in the power consumption of UHF broadcast systems.
ZMDI introduces 98% energy efficient LED driver IC for Retrofit LED lamps and low manufacturing cost
ZMD AG announced availability of the ZLED7320, a new member of its high current ZLED7x20 family of 40V LED-Driver-ICs. The ZLED7320, which operates at up to 98% efficiency and is available in a small-footprint DFN-5 package, is designed to help manufacturer’s cost-effectively address the growing high-brightness (HB) LED lighting market.
16-Bit Industrial DAC with ±10V and 4-20mA Outputs from Maxim
Maxim has introduced the MAX5661 16-bit, industrial digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with two precision, high-voltage output circuits. This DAC features unprecedented integration by incorporating a voltage-output amplifier, current-output amplifier, and pass transistors on the same silicon.
Tiny 400mA Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Converters
Available in a tiny 1.3mm x 1.3mm x 0.4mm USPN-6 package, the new XC9244/45 series is a group of step-down synchronous DC/DC converters with a built-in 0.65 P-channel driver transistor and 0.45 N-channel switching transistor. These new DC/DCs provide a high efficiency and a stable power supply with output currents of up to 400mA, all achievable using only a coil and two ceramic capacitors connected externally.
Synopsys, Altera and TSMC Collaborate to Deliver Silicon-Accurate Parasitic Modeling and Extraction for 28-nm Processes
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it collaborated with Altera and TSMC to silicon-validate modeling of key parasitic effects in Synopsys' StarRC solution for TSMC's 28-nanometer (nm) processes. The StarRC solution achieved the stringent model-to-silicon accuracy criteria of TSMC's 28-nm process technology to enable high-performance designs at the advanced node. Altera Corporation has successfully deployed StarRC to achieve signoff accurate extr...
SVTC technologies selects Synopsys’ manufacturing tools to accelerate time to comercialisation
Synopsys announced that SVTC Technologies, the leading commercialisation service provider for new, emerging silicon based technologies, has chosen Synopsys’ manufacturing tool suite to enable its customers to reduce time to market for a wide variety of innovative products using CMOS processes, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies.