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Nordic Semiconductor BLE Wireless Chips Expand Digi-Key’s IoT Solution Lineup

Digi-Key Corporation has announced a global distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, a leading provider of ARM-based Bluetooth Low Energy solutions. Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power (ULP) short-range wireless communication in the license-free 2.4 GHz and sub-1-GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) bands. Nordic’s ULP wireless solutions enable customers to … Read more

Lime Microsystems launches CMOS multi-standard / frequency single chip MIMO transceiver

Lime Microsystems the inventor of the field programmable RF (FPRF) concept announces its second-generation device, the LMS7002M. The new device, which has already been taped out and will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress, uses 65nm CMOS technology to significantly reduce the cost of FPRF transceiver technology and significantly reduces the power consumption too. The … Read more

Ellsworth Adhesives Europe offering 3M’s new range of VHB Tapes

3M, the world’s leading adhesives manufacturer, has just announced the expansion of its VHB Tape RPXX series. The new product range will include five different callipers with both paper and filmic liner variants and is available for purchase from Ellsworth Adhesives Europe. The filmic liner is available on RP16F, RP25F, RP32F, RP45F and RP62F in … Read more

High efficiency 12 & 20 Amp models added to Murata Okami OKL PoL series

Murata boasts two additions to its Okami OKL range of non-isolated point-of-load (PoL) DC-DC converters manufactured by Murata Power Solutions. The OKL2-T/12 and the OKL2-T/20 converters feature Murata’s innovative inspectable Land Grid Array (iLGA) package that allows ease of probing of all signal pads and visual inspection that is not possible when conventional LGA packages … Read more

Microsemi Builds Upon its FPGA Leadership in Defense and Aerospace with New Release and Certification of Core1553BRT and Core1553BRM IPs

Microsemi Corporation has announced the new release and certification of its Core1553BRT v4.0 and Core1553BRM v4.0 intellectual property (IP) cores. Core1553BRT v4.0 and Core1553BRM v4.0 now support the company’s mainstream SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs and include enhancements for its currently supported FPGA families. Microsemi’s Core1553BRT and Core1553BRM provide the highest quality communication bus … Read more

UL Recognition for Harvard’s CL UNI Analog driver

Harvard Engineering has received UL certification for its CL UNI Analog Switchable driver. The high efficiency driver, which is part of the company’s award-winning CoolLED range, has up to 33W of power with smooth 0-10V Analog dimming down to 5% in a slim compact case. It has a very wide string Voltage range, 120-277V universal … Read more

L2Tek introduces new HDMI/MHL video playback receiver chips for broadcast industry

L2Tek has announced availability of new video ICs from Explore Microelectronics, a fabless semiconductor company based in Taiwan. Aimed at companies designing and manufacturing digital and analogue audio/video (AV) broadcast and switching equipment, the new EP9555E is a three-port low-power HDMI/MHL receiver with a video up/down scaler and CCIR 601/656 digital video output. MHL (Mobile … Read more

New Line of Lead Salt Detectors from Cal Sensors Block Interfering Radiation to Optimize Industry-leading Measurement Performance

Cal Sensors announces the launch of a new line of single channel detectors (SCD) that block unwanted radiation below 1.2 microns.  Exploiting the innate transmission bandwidth of Silicon, the new SCD-Si detectors are packaged with anti-reflection Silicon windows to block undesirable energy in the UV and visible spectrums. Thus these detectors focus on the infrared … Read more

Nordic Semiconductor BLE Wireless Chips Expand Digi-Key’s IoT Solution Lineup

Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced a global distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, a leading provider of ARM-based Bluetooth Low Energy solutions. Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power (ULP) short-range wireless communication in the license-free 2.4 GHz and … Read more

New analogue compensated TCXO from IQD delivers a frequency stability down to ±0.28ppm

Portable instrumentation equipment and communications systems (fixed and mobile) frequently require a high stability oscillator but don’t have either the physical space for or power to drive an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO). IQD‘s latest TCXO was launched at Embedded World 2014,providing a practical alternative designed specifically for such applications. Housed in an industry standard … Read more