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Analog Devices introduced a highly integrated, active antenna beamforming chip that allows designers to quickly replace bulky, mechanically steered antenna platforms with a compact, solid-state solution for phased array radar and communications systems...

For high voltage input/output applications, inductorless, switched capacitor converters significantly improve efficiency and reduce solution size over conventional inductor-based buck or boost topologies. By using a charge pump instead of an inductor, a “flying capacitor” is used to store and transfer the energy from input to output...

Vishay Intertechnology broadens its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of a new high speed silicon PIN photodiode with enhanced sensitivity for visible light. Featuring a rectangular 4.8 mm by 2.5 mm top-view, surface-mount package with an industry-low 0.48 mm profile...

Designers seeking a quick and easy frequency source often use a relaxation oscillator based on digital gates such as the 74HC14 inverter with hysteresis. The oscillator is also useful in sensor signal digitization when using resistive or capacitive sensors instead of fixed components in the circuit...

Analog Devices introduced the AD5758 digital-to-analog converter. It incorporates the company’s second-generation Dynamic Power Control to enable high density AOUT modules without requiring de-rating...

The Elmos-IC E523.06 is a BLDC motor system-in-a-chip, consisting of a gate driver for the 12 V vehicle electrical system combined with a powerful 16-bit CPU core. It controls up to 3 NMOS half bridges of BLDC, DC motors or other loads. The CPU architecture and motor driver peripherals are optimized for the single-shunt FOC...

Featuring low THD+N, low EMI and high PSRR, the PAM8106 is a 10 W stereo Class-D audio amplifier that integrates spread-spectrum modulation and non-clipping power limit technology to deliver advanced features for a range of battery- or line-powered devices including LCD TVs, wireless speakers, portable stereos, and game machines...

Vishay Intertechnology introduced a new series of ruggedized ENYCAP™ electrical double-layer energy storage capacitors for energy harvesting and power backup applications in harsh, high humidity environments...

The step-up switching-converter circuit presents a familiar problem: If you shut down boost converter IC₁ by pulling its /SHDN input low, external inductor L₁ and forward-biased Schottky diode D₁ allow the load to continue drawing current...

Texas Instruments introduced a 5.5-V step-down power module that delivers true, continuous 6-A output current with up to 95 percent efficiency. The easy-to-use TPSM82480 DC/DC module integrates power MOSFETs and shielded inductors...