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- There is now an alternative to solid tantalum capacitors2017-03-29
In specifying the ideal capacitor most designers would start with high volumetric efficiency and the...

- EW: Microchip 8bit MCUs get up to 128kbyte flash2017-03-14
The firm has gone big on its ‘core independent peripherals’ (CIP) to allow functions to be impleme...

- Panasonic introduces small, low-loss metallised polypropylene film capacitors2017-02-16
ECWFE capacitors have been designed with non-inductive, low acoustic emission, construction with a f...

- Imagination brings complex games to mid-range phones2017-01-17
The processors combine computational performance (‘flops’) with pixel processing performance (pixe...

- Globalfoundries demoes finfet silicon running at 56Gbit/s2016-12-13
This makes it able to fabricate Asics which will meet the emerging 50Gbit/s industry standards such...

- Danish Asic firm expands in “important” UK market2016-11-16
With an interest in medical, communications and security markets the partnership will expand Delta...

- First PWM controller with AVSBus, supplies up to 450A for FPGAs2016-11-01
There are 12 controllers, providing up to seven phases which can be shared-out between two output v...

- Microchip dev board covers 16 and 32bit PICs2016-09-13
Explorer 16/32 allows the evaluation of the 16bit PIC24, dsPIC33 and 32-bit PIC32 families through P...

- Aluminium electrolytic capacitors handle higher ripple currents2016-07-08
The V-TC and V-TCU series capacitors have from 1.2 to 1.5 times higher ripple current capabilities a...

- TI launches retimers2016-06-22
These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and support flexible, cost-optimized ...

- Cavium 64-bit ARM-based processors sample this quarter2016-05-03
The product line has 4 product families – CN80XX, CN81XX, CN82XX and CN83XX with 1 to 24 full custo...

- 2.4GHz wireless MCUs get stacks for Thread and ZigBee2016-03-09
Called Wireless Gecko, they integrate an ARM Cortex-M4 core with a 2.4GHz radio, hardware cryptograp...
