Pasternack, a leading provider of in-stock and ready to ship RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, announces the release of new affordable coaxial-packaged RF amplifiers. Both low noise and gain block amplifiers are offered and display excellent performance covering wide octave frequency bands from 9 KHz to 3 GHz. All of these new amplifiers from […]
Low-jitter 1.25-GSPS clock optimizes JESD204B serial interface functionality in GSPS data converter applications
New clock IC enables the unique functionality of the JESD204B SERDES high-speed interface Norwood, MA (12/02/2014) – AD9528 provides a low-power, multi-output, clock distribution function with low-jitter performance, along with an on-chip, two-stage PLL and VCO. The on-chip VCO tunes from 3.6 GHz to 4.0 GHz, with the input receivers and oscillator providing both single-ended […]
Light-diffusing fiber teams up with laser diodes
Osram Opto Semiconductors and Corning Incorporated announce a co-marketing agreement to promote Corning Fibrance Light-Diffusing Fiber, a first-of-its-kind technology that embeds lighting into products using OSRAM laser diodes. Fibrance fiber uses Corning’s glass optical fiber designed for thin, colorful, aesthetic lighting and Osram’s blue and green laser diodes to create endless design possibilities. Fibrance fiber […]
FDAs handle 7 GHz signals
Texas Instruments announced two new fully differential amplifiers (FDAs) that provide DC-coupled applications with best-in-class AC performance to improve system capabilities and performance. The LMH3401 and LMH5401 FDAs provide higher bandwidth and slew rate, and lower distortion than existing ADC drivers. The performance of the LMH3401 and LMH5401 can enable radar systems that help keep […]
High-speed a/d converters hit 200 msps
Microchip announced two families of new high-speed A/D converters in the MCP37DX1-200 and MCP372X1-200 families. These families feature 12-, 14- and 16-bit pipelined A/D converters with a maximum sampling rate of 200 Mega samples per second (Msps). The 14- and 16-bit devices feature high accuracy of over 74 dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and over 90 […]
Energy management analog front end targets power metering
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the completion of its high-accuracy, 1-8 channel, single and poly-phase MCP391X energy-measurement Analog Front End (AFE) family. The new MCP3919 and MCP3912 members integrate three and four channels of 24-bit, delta-sigma Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), respectively, with industry-leading accuracy of 93.5 […]
New circuit sim site
Mouser Electronics Inc., in conjunction with its recent global release of MultiSIM BLUE offers a full-featured support site with documentation, downloads, video tutorials and user forum to get engineers designs to market faster. Available as a free download on Mouser.com, MultiSIM BLUE has set a new standard by creating an easy-to-use, fully integrated platform for circuit design engineers this […]
Smart meter transceiver works on dual bands
Atmel Corporation, a global leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, announced a new family of wireless transceivers. Atmel’s AT86RF215, the first sampling device, is the industry’s first dual-band sub-1GHz / 2.4GHz transceiver compliant to IEEE 802.15.4g-2012 and ETSI TS 102 887-1. Expanding the Atmel SMART metering portfolio, the new devices include the AT86RF215M, a […]
High efficiency buck-boost and boost+bypass switching regulators for smartphones and tablets
Intersil Corporation, a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, today announced five new additions to the ISL911xx family of market leading buck-boost and boost switching regulators, optimized to support system power supplies and peripherals such as Wi-Fi or 3G/4G RF power amplifiers. Intersil’s proprietary four-switch buck-boost architecture extends battery life by […]
Micrel launches family of miniature, efficient, low-profile, DC/DC power modules
Micrel Inc., an industry leader in high-performance Linear and Power solutions, LAN and timing and communications solutions, today introduced the MIC33163/MIC33164 (1A) and MIC33263/MIC33264 (2A) a family of low-profile step down power modules capable of 100 percent duty cycle and operating with an input voltage range from 2.7V to 5.5V. These compact modules integrate a […]
