Actel Corp. (Mountain View, CA) announced the availability of its reprogrammable, non-volatile ProASIC Plus field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), tested and verified to operate over the full military temperature range of -55°C to +125°C. With densities ranging from 300,000 to one million system gates, the single-chip, military-qualified APA300, APA600 and APA1000 devices are offered in three […]
Semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corp. (Colorado Springs, CO) announced that all eight-pin, SOIC, ferro-electric random access memory (FRAM) products are now available in environmentally friendly "green" packaging. Responding to the industry's drive toward the lead-free packaging of electronic products, Ramtron has removed lead (Pb) from finished packaging as well as brominated, flame-retarding compounds from encapsulants […]
NEC Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has developed what it claims is the world's first slim-sized, water-cooling module for notebook personal computers that employs a piezoelectric pump driving method. The water-cooling module is developed by integrating the pump and the tank with the aluminum radiation plate that contains the water circulation channel. Through the design of the […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced an intelligent hot-swap controller that eliminates the need for OR-ing diodes in redundant -48V systems....
Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR) announced its new generation of high-voltage MOSFETs, POWER MOS 7®, which are now available in hermetic, discrete packages. The POWER MOS 7® MOSFETs have up to 60% lower total gate charge (Qg) than the current POWER MOS V® generation devices. In addition, the POWER MOS 7® devices have […]
RO Associates Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the release of a new high-efficiency "quarter brick" with 48V input and 5V at 25A. The...
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced that it has expanded the range of power MOSFETs offered in its SOT669 loss-free package...
Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced a new generation of small, discrete, leadless packages using quad-flat nonleaded (QFN) technology. The new SOT88x package family are suitable for applications such as LCD back-light-related devices, dc/dc conversion, electro-static discharge protection devices and small-signal switching transistors. With dimensions of 1mm x 0.6mm x 0.5mm and bottom contact […]
Supertex Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced its new HV111 integrated, high-voltage, inrush-limiter/circuit-breaker/hot-swap IC for externally powered network equipment and pluggable backplane applications with loads up to 1.65A. Operating from -8V to -80V, the product requires no external components; eliminates the need for a sense resistor; incorporates an on-board thermal sensor; has three separate current-control algorithms; and […]
Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced the addition of three new members to the LINEARLINK™ RS-485/RS-422 family of data transceivers – the ISL8483,...
LEM USA Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) introduced the new HTB Series of PCB-mounted current transducers, which provide current measurements from 50 ARMS to...
Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR) announced that it has reached an agreement with Cree Inc. for purchase of its silicon carbide (SiC) ZERO RECOVERY™ schottky diode die for packaging and selling of finish products under the APT brand name. APT intends to primarily address market segments not currently served by Cree, mainly using […]
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the IR3310, IR3311 and IR3312 high-side intelligent power switch (IPS) devices with accurate high-frequency...
INCEP Technologies Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced that it has signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to develop power delivery technologies for...
Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit between Therma-Wave and Boxer-Cross Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Materials. Under the settlement, Therma-Wave will dismiss its pending patent infringement claims against Boxer Cross with prejudice. Boxer Cross will dismiss its pending patent infringement claims against Therma-Wave without […]