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In 1969 the first device housed in the breakthrough SOT23 plastic surface mount package rolled off the assembly line. Last year Nexperia alone shipped over 30 billion SOT23 packaged devices...

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor announced the release of, AONS32310, a 30 V MOSFET with low on-resistance and a high Safe Operating Area capability which is ideally suited for demanding applications such as hot swap and e-fuse...

A small and simple circuit derives 5 V from the –48 V rail that telecomm applications typically use...

Dialog Semiconductor announces the DA913X-A product family, a new line of highly efficient, high-current, automotive-grade, step-down DC-DC converters. The highly integrated DA913X-A devices require fewer external components than competing solutions...

Laser diodes are sensitive to ESD, rapid turn-on currents, and overvoltage conditions. To address those problems, the simple laser-diode controller in has several functions...

pSemi Corporation announces the expansion of its digital step attenuator portfolio with two new high-performance DSAs, PE43610 and PE43614. Featuring industry-leading attenuation accuracy, the PE43610 and PE43614 DSAs support the entire 9 kHz–13 GHz and 9 kHz–45 GHz frequency ranges, respectively...

This article describes a complete solution in which a voltage up to 20 V can be controlled simply and efficiently with a push-button digital potentiometer. The complete solution represents an adjustable power supply and can be used in various applications where adjustable voltage output is required...

Infineon Technologies introduces the XDP digital power XDPL8219. The high-performance flyback controller features secondary-side regulation for high-performance and robust LED designs...

Many pc-board assemblies require shields to reduce susceptibility to interference from electromagnetic fields. A classic example is a radio receiver, in which the front end usually needs high isolation from the tuning synthesizer...

Researchers in Germany are developing an electronic sensor based on graphene oxide to detect bacterial and viral infections such as Covid-19 antibodies in just 15 minutes...