At the IAA international motor show in Frankfurt, Germany, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced the new Mantra RF portfolio – a family of high-performance transceivers and receivers for secure car access and vehicle management. The chip family offers a long-range, two-way RF link that enables robust bi-directional communication between key fob and car over […]
Products
Economical coax-packaged RF amps cover 9 kHz to 3 GHz
Pasternack, a 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 Pasternack […]
Top analog threads on EDAboard.com – October
Amplifying DC voltage from 5V to 12V – I use an Arduino board with a 5V output supply but I Ineed to operate 12V motor. I know that I could connect the Arduino to a 12V power supply to solve the problem. But but I can’t do it for some of reason so I have to build […]
24 bit DAQ system-on-chip series from Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. introduced a 24-bit data acquisition system-on-chip (SoC) series designed to improve the performance of protection, monitoring, and power quality measurement equipment used to manage transmission and distribution of electrical energy within smart grid systems. The AD7770 enables higher performance and smaller form factor protection relays, while the AD7771 enables power quality measurement […]
iCoupler Digital Isolators from Analog Devices improve signal reliability
Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced the industry’s most robust digital isolator series with the best combination of signal reliability, safety and performance. Based on ADI’s patented iCoupler® digital isolation technology, the new isolator devices ensure safe system performance for applications operating in noisy, harsh and unpredictable healthcare and industrial environments. • View the new iCoupler […]
Drivers for BDC motors incorporate on-chip current sensing
Texas Instruments introduced a family of three brushed DC gate drivers featuring the industry’s first device with integrated current sensing. With this integration, designers using the DRV8871 can avoid the power loss, heat generation and cost associated with using external sense resistors. Compared to competitive devices, the DRV8871 motor driver family helps reduce design complexity, […]
Coax threshold detectors span 2 to 40 GHz
Pasternack, a manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, introduces a new line of coaxial threshold detectors designed for microwave and millimeter wave applications from 2 to 40 GHz. These threshold detectors are commonly used for analyzing radar performance, leveling pulsed signal sources, AM noise measurements, system monitoring and pulsed RF measurements in ultra-broadband […]
Electrometer-Grade Amplifier from Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced an electrometer-grade operational amplifier that enables chemical analysis instruments to achieve the highest level of precision and data repeatability over a wider temperature range in a compact solution that reduces overall bill of materials and design footprint. The ADA4530-1 op amp achieves this with an input bias current that is […]
High-resolution audio processing SoC
ON Semiconductor has released its latest high-resolution audio processing System-on-Chip with 1656KB SRAM and power-efficient hardware acceleration, bringing extra space savings and longer battery life to devices such as smartphones, wearable accessories and voice recorders. Powering the LC823450 are a highly efficient ARM Cortex-M3 core and ON Semiconductor’s 32-bit/192kHz audio-processing engine with hardware-based MP3 encoding/decoding and […]
Using and interfacing to thermocouples
I recently had cause to look again at thermocouples after not having used them for many years. While they may seem a little old fashioned when you can measure temperature with a simple IC or a complex IC with an I²C or SPI interface such as the Analog Devices ADT7410, thermocouples still have their uses. […]