Functional safety solution 22 August 2012, Infineon Technologies Engineers are striving to achieve 100% failsafe systems; however this Utopia is very difficult to realise in practical implementations and in a cost-effective way. Therefore a probabilistic and risk-based ...
Noise-cancelling IC 22 August 2012, NuVision Electronics Wireless headsets, which may be linked over the air to devices such as mobile phones and portable media players, are often used in noisy environments such as cars, aeroplanes, office buildings and public ...
Burst-mode laser driver 22 August 2012, CST Electronics The MAX3710 limiting amplifier and burst-mode laser driver from Maxim provides a highly integrated PMD solution for GPON/EPON ONU applications in modules or directly on the ONU board.
The low-jitter ...
Low-EMI oscillators 22 August 2012, Altron Arrow Euroquartz has introduced a new range of low-EMI oscillators that are a ‘drop-in’ replacement for standard clock oscillators. They are suitable for use in a wide range of applications.
The HM572 ‘N’ ...
Real-time clock/calendars 22 August 2012, Tempe Technologies Microchip announced the expansion of its standalone real-time clock/calendar (RTCC) portfolio with the new 10-pin, SPI MCP795XX family. The devices include 64 Bytes of SRAM, 2 Kbits of EEPROM and a 128-bit ...
Track-and-hold amplifier 22 August 2012, RF Design Hittite’s HMC760LC4B is a monolithic, fully differential, single rank track-and-hold amplifier that provides high dynamic range performance to wideband sampled signal systems. It offers precision signal ...
Broadband LNA 8 August 2012, RF Design The HMC374SC70E is a general-purpose broadband low-noise amplifier (LNA) for use in the 0,3 to 3 GHz frequency range. It provides 15 dB of gain and a 1,6 dB noise figure from a single positive supply ...
High-linearity VGA 8 August 2012, CST Electronics Maxim’s MAX2092 analog variable-gain amplifier (VGA) is a monolithic SiGe BiCMOS attenuator/amplifier/error amplifier with an alarm circuit designed to interface with 50 Ω systems operating in the 700 ...
It's hot! Why are my CMOS logic circuits burning up? 8 August 2012, CST Electronics Some may think that digital circuits, especially using CMOS and BiCMOS, are easy to design. But like most things in life, professionals who have many years of experience make the jobs look easy. The circus ...
Digital step attenuators 8 August 2012, RF Design RFMD’s new 5-bit digital step attenuators (DSAs) feature high linearity over their entire gain control range with excellent step accuracy in 0,5 dB (RFSA2514) or 1 dB (RFSA2524) steps. They are programmed ...
14-bit ADC 8 August 2012 Analog Devices introduced a two-channel, 14-bit A-D converter with 125 MSps performance in a 5 x 5 mm package. It meets the performance and size requirements of the latest 3G and 4G multi-standard cellular ...
Wideband I/Q demodulator 8 August 2012, Altron Arrow Linear Technology’s LTC5584 is an ultra-wide bandwidth direct conversion I/Q demodulator with linearity of 31 dBm IIP3 and 70 dBm IIP2. It offers demodulation bandwidth of over 530 MHz, supporting the ...
Optical isolation amplifiers 8 August 2012, Future Electronics Avago Technologies announced the availability of a new family of optically-isolated voltage sensors. It is based on sigma-delta modulation and is specifically optimised for voltage sensing. Targeted at ...
Down-converting RF mixer 25 July 2012, Altron Arrow Linear Technology announced the LTC5544, a 4 GHz to 6 GHz, high dynamic range down-converting mixer.
It offers high linearity with 25,9 dBm IIP3 (input third-order intercept), high conversion gain of ...
Digital phase shifters 25 July 2012 M/A-COM Technology Solutions has added two new members to its digital phase shifter product family.
These GaAs pHEMT MAPS-010145 and MAPS-010165 are 4- and 6-bit packaged devices for use in C-band applications ...
PLL clock generator 25 July 2012, RF Design Hittite has expanded its clocks and timing product portfolio to include the HMC1031MS8E, a low-power integer-N PLL clock generator. This new device is ideal as a building block for jitter attenuation, ...
Class-D audio amplifiers 25 July 2012, Altron Arrow Texas Instruments has introduced three new analog-input, class-D stereo amplifiers for use in soundbars, after-market automotive solutions, portable audio docks and LCD televisions.
The TPA3116D2, TPA3118D2 ...
ICs for digital voice communication 25 July 2012 CML Microcircuits recently introduced the DuraTALK family of digital voice products, consisting of a wide range of flexible technologies supporting voice-data generation, coding, transcoding, decoding, ...
Video amplifiers 25 July 2012 Analog Devices has introduced a series of high-speed video amplifiers that integrate short-to-battery protection and fault detection for analog video systems in automotive safety and infotainment applications.
Housed ...
16-channel audio DAC 25 July 2012, Altron Arrow Analog Devices has introduced a 16-channel audio D/A converter (DAC) capable of improving audio system performance and reducing power consumption for professional, ‘prosumer’ and automotive audio equipment ...
