IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) released its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and its fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. For the fourth fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2003, IXYS reported record net revenues of $37.8 million, compared with net revenues of $20.4 million reported for the same period in fiscal year 2002, […]
Agere Systems Inc. (Allentown, PA) announced six semiconductor chips that improve the capacity, size, total system costs and product delivery schedules of existing and next-generation wireless and wireline telecommunications equipment. The APP550TM (5Gbits/s), APP530TM (2.5Gbits/s), TAAD Lite, TAAD UltraLite, SAR-1K and SAR-500 chips perform various communications functions with voice, data and video signals, including traffic […]
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC, Irvine, CA), with parent company Toshiba Corp., announced that it has developed what is claimed to be the industry's first integration of a power MOSFET and a Schottky barrier diode onto a single die to create a new device, called a MOSBD™, to meet the requirements for greater integration […]
New Japan Radio Co. Ltd. (NJR, Japan) released the new NJM2732 single-supply, dual-operational amplifier that features a full-swing input and output capability,...
Hua Da Electric Ind. Co. Ltd. (China) unveiled the HDX2 Series of metallized film capacitors, which are available with capacitance values from...
Molex Inc. (Lisle, IL), a global electronic components company, introduced its new modular Power Dock™ connector system, which offers a broad range of options that include vertical-angle or right-angle board orientations, up to three separate power mating sequences, press-fit or solder through-hole termination, 6 or 24-circuit signal modules, and self-aligning capabilities. The Power Dock connectors […]
California Micro Devices Corp. (Milpitas, CA) introduced the new CM3112-12 low-voltage (LDO) regulator, which provides a stable output voltage without an external...
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced the new MAX9720 headphone amplifier with a low 5mA supply current that combines Maxim's patented DirectDrive architecture and SmartSense feature, which is an automatic mono/stereo switching feature that eliminates battery drain into a shorted load, and prevents damage to the amplifier. The device operates from a single 1.8V […]
Agere Systems Inc. (Allentown, PA) announced two new integrated VoIP phone chips that offer both dual (T8300) and single (T8303) Ethernet ports and are aimed at driving the rapid deployment of IP phone systems. Both chips couple the company's DSP 1600 core with an ARM490T microcontroller, allowing use of the same software for a broad […]
New Japan Radio Co. Ltd. (NJR, Japan) debuted its new NJU6050 white LED driver, which incorporates an output driver and a step-up, dc/dc converter into a 2.9mm x 2.8mm x 1.1mm, TOS-23-5 package. It is suitable for use in PDAs, mobile phones and digital still cameras. The device operates from a 2.5V to 6.5V and […]
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) presented its new STSR3 MOSFET driver that provides the high current output necessary to allow the MOSFETs to be used as synchronous rectifiers in flyback converters, high-power adaptors and low output-voltage dc/dc flyback modules. Operating at a frequency range of 30kHz to 750kHz, the IC runs from a 4V to […]
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has begun shipping what it claims to be the industry's first hot-pluggable, DWDM transceivers. The transceivers are part of the company's Metrak family and are used to send multiple channels of data, voice or video over a single fiber-optic link. The AFKC-xxxxD and AFKC-xxxxE transceivers provide, transmit and receive […]
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced an LVDS serdes chipset that achieves a data rate of up to 6.4Gbps and supports a full 48-bit parallel bus interface. The new chipset is part of the company's Channel Link SerDes portfolio and is comprised of the DS90CR485 serializer and DS90CR486 deserializer ICs. Typical system applications for […]
Thunder Components Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) unveiled the new CF Series of carbon-film resistors, which have an insulation resistance of >10 gigaohms and...
C&D Technologies Inc. (Tucson, AZ) introduced two series of surface-mount inductors, 4000 and 4100 Series, which offer current ratings up to 8.1A...