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Ericsson receives Chinese top 10 DC/DC award for its 1/8 brick digital power module
Ericsson Power Modules' BMR454 series of digital DC/DC converters has received a top 10 DC/DC award from Electronic Products China magazine, reflecting the company's expertise and commitment to energy efficiency.
Avago Introduces New Low-Power Optical Sensors That Enable Wireless Mice to Operate on a Single AA Battery for over a Year
Avago today announced two new low-power optical sensors for wireless mouse applications. The ADNS-2080 and ADNS-3000 LED-based sensors leverage an advanced low-power architecture and automatic power management modes to enable over a year of battery life for cordless mice using a single AA battery.
Avago's Optocouplers Target Industrial Applications
Avago Technologies has announced a new family of multi-channel phototransistor optocouplers to complement its existing single-channel product line. The company is a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for advanced communications, industrial and commercial applications.
AnalogicTech LED Backlight Drivers with CABC Save Power and Smooth Brightness Transitions in Handheld Devices
Advanced Analogic Technologies today introduced the AAT2868 and AAT2869 LED backlight drivers. The AAT2868 and AAT2869 are 1x/1.5x dual-mode, high-efficiency charge pump based white LED backlight drivers that drive four constant current LED channels and now offer content adaptive brightness control (CABC) or dynamic backlight control (DBC) to further reduce power consumption by up to 50 percent. To form a complete lighting solution, both devices ...
PowerPax launches miniature 30W DC/DC converters
PowerPax has announced a range of miniature 30W DC/DC converters. The 30PVRB_LD Series is 40% smaller than the current industry standard package with dimensions of 50.8 x 25.4 x 11.5mm and has a power density of 2.28W/cm3.
Next-Generation Decoder IC from STMicroelectronics Combines High Performance and Value for High-Definition Set-Top Boxes
STMicroelectronics has begun sampling the STi7106 high-definition (HD) video decoder, which offers enhancements for higher performance, lower power, and lower bill of materials costs in set-top boxes. As the latest evolution of ST’s STi7105 single-chip decoder, supporting all required audio and video standards such as H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WM9, the new STi7106 adds AVS high-definition decoding and maintains the same architecture as the STi7105...
Front-End Measurement ICs for Low-End, Single-Phase Energy Meters
STMicroelectronics has introduced a family of energy-metering ICs that incorporate all of the core circuitry necessary to implement a complete meter system without requiring any other active component. The STPM1x family, measuring active energy as pulse frequency output and featuring fast digital calibration, provides electronic meter manufacturers with a complete, cost-effective series of power-metering chips specifically designed for low-end ap...
Hard-Disk-Drive Motor Controller from STMicroelectronics Designed for Next-Generation Enterprise Drives
STMicroelectronics has announced a hard-disk drive (HDD) motor-control chip intended for demanding enterprise-level HDD applications. The new L7220 controller integrates all of the circuits required to drive both the spindle motor and the voice-coil motor (VCM), plus the motor drive power FETs and multiple high-efficiency voltage regulators. It continues and complements ST’s HDD controller family, which includes the L7207 HDD controller for mob...
Dual 200-mA LDOs for Portable Designs
Texas Instruments has introduced a family of dual, 200-mA low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) in a 2 mm x 2 mm SON package for portable, battery-powered equipment. The low-noise LDOs provide high power-supply rejection ratio (PSRR) over a wide frequency range of up to 10-MHz, fast 160-µs start-up time and excellent line and load transient response, while consuming a very low total 90-µA ground current with both LDOs enabled.
Gap filler provides industry-leading thermal performance material designed for demanding applications
The Bergquist Company has extended its Gap Pad S-Class range of thermally conductive gap-filling products with the announcement of Gap Pad 5000S35. The new material provides an industry-leading combination of specifications, including thermal conductivity, softness, robustness and ease-of-use, for demanding applications such as cooling laptop CPUs, graphics processors and cards, CD-ROM drives, and voltage regulators.