Buying into low-power microcontrollers
Mouser Electronics is now offering Microchip’s PIC32CM LE00, LS00 and LS600 ultra-low-power microcontrollers. Offering 32-bit performance, ultra-low power consumption and memory configurations up to 512kB flash and 64kB SRAM, the PIC32CM Lx family provides three product options for solving challenges in the IoT, consumer, industrial and medical markets. The microcontrollers…
High stability oscillators ready to ship
Hong Kong X’tals’ high frequency crystal oscillators are designed to ensure high stability and low noise. The company states this is made possible thanks to a differential output and low-phase jitter. The manufacturer is addressing growing demand for low-cost, low-jitter timing references in telecommunications applications such as LTE/5G, PCI-e Express…
Semiconductor raw materials draw attention on IC sales optimism
The widening use of semiconductors across the global economy is forcing companies and investors to pay closer attention to the availability and sourcing of the raw materials used in chip production. This is the semiconductor decade. Notwithstanding expectations for a double-digit revenue decline in 2023, semiconductor sales are projected to…
Never Go Short – Shortage Mitigation Solutions
Shortage Mitigation This year has been such a roller coaster for us all and has left us in a continuous loop. Countless unexpected events happened just within a year, and all of them had made huge impacts on most industries. In the world of electronics, it became a great struggle…
Buyers’ guide to sensor evolution
Sager Electronics’ VP supplier marketing and product manager, Craig Sanderson, explains how new sensors can reduce costs by combining multiple technologies in one device Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expanding sensor usage. Over the past decade, sensors have become a mainstream method for improving the effectiveness and utility of equipment…
Hi-rel connector portfolio increases
Harwin has expanded the contact layout options of its Gecko-MT high-reliability connectors. There are six new contact arrangements that feature two to six power contacts and four to 24 signal contacts. These have a non-symmetrical structure, with the power contacts situated at one end and data contacts at the other….
