ICs & Semiconductors

Analog Devices has released a new synchronous demodulator. The ADA2200 uses ADI’s patent pending sampled analogue technology (SAT), developed at Lyric Semiconductor, which was acquired by ADI in mid-2011, and incorporates a configurable analogue filter to enable designers of portable and low-power instrumentation to maximize battery life and perform precision magnitude and phase measurements on analogue signals in the presence of large noise sources.

Belgian nanoelectronics research centre imec has announced a joint development project with Coventor, a supplier of semiconductor process development tools. The collaboration will enable faster and more optimised development of advanced manufacturing technology in the 3D device architecture era, extending down to imec’s 10- and 7-nanometer (nm) processes.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has made a key addition to its extensive portfolio of solutions for the automotive market. The TC358791XBG automotive companion chip was created to drive high-resolution multimedia (audio, video) and camera connectivity for next-generation infotainment applications in the connected car.

New from Allego MicroSystems Europe, the A8518 and A8519 are the latest additions to the company’s portfolio of LED driver ICs for LCD backlighting applications and are multi-output boost converter devices with built-in fault-tolerant protection.

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the FXTH87, a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) family, which is the smallest integrated package TPMS solution currently available with a weight of just 0.3 grams. The family of devices is 50 percent smaller than competing products, helping designers reduce overall bill of materials costs.

Renesas Electronics Europe and its Alliance Partner port GmbH have announced efficient multi-protocol connectivity solutions for PROFINET (CCA / CCB RT1), Ethernet/IP and CANopen stacks, as well as the associated design tools for the RX64M. The RX64M is Renesas’ 32-bit high-performance microcontroller group. Working with port GmbH, Renesas has ported the widely adopted PROFINET, Ethernet/IP and CANopen software stack to its latest RX controller.

Exar Corporation has expanded its portfolio of compression and security solutions with the shipment of the DX2040 compression and security acceleration card. Targeting data analytics, storage, and cloud security markets, this low-profile, half-length eight lane PCI-Express 3.0 card accelerates Hadoop applications by a factor of 2 while simultaneously reducing storage costs.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) has expanded its system-on-chip (SoC)-friendly PCI Express (PCIe) timing family with the addition of 1.5 V clock generators and clock multiplexers. The new devices join the previously introduced 1.5 V buffers to provide enterprise-level performance for space- and power-constrained designs. The chips offer up to a 90 percent reduction in power and board space compared to standard 3.3 V current-mode HCSL devices.

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a versatile and reliable Internet of Things (IoT) gateway reference design that supports a broad array of IoT applications including building/home management, smart cities, networked industrial services and other applications where performance and reliability are critical.

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced the lowest-power MCUs with an on-chip LCD controller within a new family of ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs) and a new low-cost LaunchPad rapid prototyping kit that provide all the advantages of non-volatile FRAM in a small memory footprint.