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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