Products of the year

11 November 2009 News

IC integrates LED driver and controller

Via Nano board in Em-ITX format

Digital isolators support up to 150 Mbps

Power line communication modem

Tool warns of potential stack overflow

'Industy's fastest' 14-bit ADC

Arbitrary waveform generators

Integrated bidirectional OVP IC

Long-range RF receiver

FPGAs feature advanced security

SMD power entry filter

'World's first' Pico-ITXe SBC

Military qualified Flash-based FPGAs

256-tap digital potentiometer

Non-volatile SRAMs

High-speed USB/Ethernet oscilloscope

Hex-voltage microprocessor supervisor

Low-power 32-bit MCUs

LabVIEW 2009 offers several enhancements

Mentor Graphics releases PADS 9.0

Schottky diodes eliminate switching losses

Clock jitter cleaners

High-performance FPGA family

Component arrays feature low cross-talk

8-bit MCU measures just 4 mm²

LED driver with error detection

Voltage sequencers/monitors

High-frequency SMA connectors

Energy harvesting powers wireless sensors

MSOs with up to 20 GHz bandwidth

Ethernet cable crimper and tester

Cree receives lighting industry awards

Cypress combines PSoC with nvSRAM

RFI capability added to watertight enclosures

Hybrid test and burn-in socket

Low-capacitance TVS arrays

Low-power GPS receiver

Fast optical sampling oscilloscopes

Ambient light sensing photodiode

Powerline communication chip

IC enables battery 'fuel gauges'

Single-IC USB isolator

'World's thinnest' embedded capacitor

Highly sensitive GPS receiver

QNX boots Intel Atom fast

Illuminated rotary encoders

High-speed RS232 transceivers

Small 1 W LEDs

PTFE cable options from Samtec

Multichannel wireless transceiver

Pico-ITx embedded SBC

Hepta-band M2M antenna

DAC stores configuration in EEPROM

LED for POF data communication

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