Choosing an opamp for a particular task can sometimes be simple but at other times, you will have a lot of conflicting requirements which makes choosing more of a challenge. Also, the number of opamps available now is huge so it can take a while to work your way through the options from different manufacturers. […]
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New series of conductive polymer chip capacitors for demanding automotive applications
AVX Corporation has introduced the robust new TCQ Series automotive conductive polymer chip capacitors. Qualified to the Automotive Electronics Council’s AEC-Q200 specification for passive components, the TCQ Series…
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New high reliability VCOs cover frequencies from 10 MHz to 11 GHz in a variety of packages
Pasternack, a provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has just added an all new product line of voltage controlled oscillators covering select bands from 10 MHz…
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Transceiver circuit achieves speeds up to 56 Gbps
Socionext Inc. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that they have developed the world’s lowest power-consuming transceiver circuit that achieves communications speeds of 56 Gbps per channel. Compared…
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Why silicon and germanium are semiconductors
Both silicon and germanium can be used as the intrinsic semiconductor when fabricating solid-state devices. In the Periodic Table of the Elements, germanium (atomic number 32) occupies the…
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Top analog threads on EDAboard.com – January
Rechargeable 30 LED burns up on AC – I have some emergency rechargeable lights. As soon as I connect them to a 220V AC outlet 220v they burn…
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MMSM PIN diode for high-power RF switching
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) has announced a new high power monolithic microwave surface mount (MMSM) series-shunt SP2T PIN diode reflective switch, the MPS2R10-606. The device is optimized for…
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X-band silicona quad-core IC supports radar and 5G-phased arrays
Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL) announced today the availability of a new X-band silicon quad-core integrated circuit from Anokiwave, Inc. The highly-integrated AWS-0101 is intended for radar and…
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How IoT and mixed-signal designs will drive SiP tech in 2016
By Ian Dennison As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes an increasingly competitive market, we should, in 2016, expect new package and board technologies to provide much of…
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High-resolution audio-processing SoC
ON Semiconductor has released its latest high-resolution audio processing System-on-Chip with 1656KB SRAM and power-efficient hardware acceleration, bringing extra space savings and longer battery life to devices such as smartphones, wearable accessories and voice recorders. Powering the LC823450 are a highly efficient ARM Cortex-M3 core and ON Semiconductor’s 32-bit/192kHz audio-processing engine with hardware-based MP3 encoding/decoding and […]