ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, Semiconductor Components Industries LLC, have commenced an offer to exchange $200 million aggregate principal amount of their registered 12% senior secured notes due 2010 for any and all outstanding unregistered 12% senior secured notes due 2010. The exchange offer commenced on May […]
Conexant Systems Inc. (Newport Beach, CA) announced the availability of an IEEE 802.11b-compliant wireless local area network (WLAN) baseband processor with an...
ICE Components Inc. (Manassas, VA) introduced its LP03 Series inductors for high-current output choke applications. The new low-profile, 4.5mm device provides high...
Actel Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the production qualification of its AX1000, AX500, AX250 and AX125 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the first four members of the company's high-performance Axcelerator family. Built upon the company's AX architecture, the family delivers better than 500MHz internal operation and up to 100% resource utilization. Fully qualified AX1000, AX500, AX250 and […]
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced its new small logic, integrated circuit (IC), 24-pin, depopulated, quad flat-pack no-leads (DQFN) package, designed...
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) launched its NCP5331, a multi-phase controller with integrated gate drivers designed to support AMD Opteron™ processors. The...
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) introduced the NCP1207, a pulse-width modulated (PWM), current-mode controller with quasi-resonant switching capability that reduces power consumption...
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced the LT3431, a high-voltage, constant-frequency, step-down, switching regulator that utilizes a 3A internal switch. The...
Sipex Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced its Photo Detector Integrated Circuit (PDIC), the SP8051, which is designed to meet the requirements of next-generation, writeable DVD and CD drives. The SP8051 offers four high-speed data detection channels and four additional tracking channels. The device features slew rates of 350V/µs and offers 70db PSRR with less than 5mV […]
ICE Components Inc. (Manassas, VA) announced its new GT01 Series of gate drive transformers, which are suitable for high-density dc/dc converters where...
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leader in power management and high-speed communications integrated circuits, announced a new, dual-channel, hot-swap power controller providing flexible power-sequencing capabilities, the MIC2584 and MIC2585, suitable for RAID system, network server, memory board, cellular base station, network switch, enterprise storage, and hot-board insertion/removal applications. Available in 16-pin and 24-pin […]
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) announced the addition of the new 0402 case size version to the existing USB family of transient...
Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leader in power conversion semiconductor technology, announced a new lower-cost addition to its LinkSwitch family....
Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leader in power conversion semiconductor technology, and its global distribution partner Memec plc, announced the addition of three new field application labs in Europe. The new application labs will be staffed with Memec power field application engineers, and fully equipped to allow individual customer switch-mode power supply design […]
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) introduced a family of power-efficient, CMOS amplifiers specifically targeted for lower power applications. The LMV321 (single),...