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Omron Electronics Automotive Relays | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.

November 02, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

UnitedSiC UJ4C/SC 750V Gen 4 SiC FETs | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.

October 09, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

Latest Automotive IC “Firsts” Include Ethernet Switches and IMUs

Feeding the needs of next-gen automotive designs, chip companies have rolled out devices that are “firsts” in their categories.

September 03, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

H-bridge DC Motor Control Using Complementary PWM, Shoot-through, and Dead-time

Learn about the role of non-overlapping or complementary pulse width modulation (PMW) in DC motor control using an h-bridge circuit, taking into consideration PWM shoot-through and dead-time PWM.

August 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Electronic Component Aging—the Aging Effects of Resistors and Op-amps

Learn about the aging behavior of resistors and amplifiers using temperature calculations and the Arrhenius equation to understand resistor drift, resistor stability, and op-amp drift.

August 28, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar

IXYS Gate Drivers for N-Channel MOSFETs & IGBTs | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.

August 25, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

Panasonic EVPBV 6.5mm x 6.2mm SMD Tactile Switches | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.

August 21, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

ToF Sensors Land Roles in PCs, Smart Door Locks, and More

A new wave of time-of-flight (ToF) sensors are finding use in applications such as PCs, smart door lock facial recognition, 3D image sensing, and more.

August 06, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

Introduction to Allan Variance—Non-overlapping and Overlapping Allan Variance

Learn about non-overlapping and overlapping Allan variance and how the Allan variance curve can be used to identify different types of random errors present in a signal.

July 08, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar

Sensor ICs Suit Up to Play in EVs, RFIDs, and the IoT

New sensor innovations have emerged to play in market-specific zones. Among these are IS0-26262 electric vehicle (EV) sensors, RFID sensors, and sensors geared for the Internet of Things (IoT).

July 01, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

An Introduction to MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) vibratory gyroscopes can be a bit mysterious and math-intensive. Let's break the math down, and go over gyroscope basics and structures.

June 30, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar

LiDAR’s Future Looks Bright With New Tech Demos at Sensors Converge 2022

The All About Circuits team reviews just a couple of the many demonstrations of new LiDAR technologies from this week’s Sensors Converge conference in Silicon Valley.

June 29, 2022 by Dale Wilson

Ep. 47 | Universal Robots CEO Kim Povlsen on Collaborative Robots for the 98%

Universal Robots CEO Kim Povlsen is a self-described robotics geek who now runs one of the world’s leading collaborative robot (cobot) companies where they strive to develop robots for the 98% of the market that doesn’t yet know they need them.

June 07, 2022 by Daniel Bogdanoff

Renesas Claims Another Debut in I3C—The First I3C Intelligent Switch

Moving beyond I2C, Renesas is introducing a new I3C intelligent switch family to boost performance and speed in the data center.

June 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Francis Ronalds, the World’s “First” Electrical Engineer?

Francis Ronalds is credited as the inventor of the electric telegraph—and sometimes as the first electrical engineer.

May 30, 2022 by Lianne Frith

“World’s Smallest LBS Display” Could Lead to More Comfortable AR Headsets

TriLite and Dispelix teamed up for a new, ultra-compact projection display aimed at augmented reality (AR) headsets.

May 26, 2022 by Jake Hertz

RECOM Power RSH2 2W Single-Output Isolated DC/DC Converters | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.

May 22, 2022 by Mouser Electronics

Ep. 45 | The “Ideal Switch”? GE’s Spinoff, Menlo Micro, Looks to Disrupt the Power Industry

Chris Keimel, CTO of Menlo Micro (a spinoff from General Electric), introduces the metal MEMS Ideal Switch®. Its ambitious goals merely include replacing the centuries-old electromechanical relay and disrupting the power and RF switching industries.

May 10, 2022 by Daniel Bogdanoff

TI Touts Solid-state Relays to Enable Safer EVs

With an eye toward improving isolation technology in electric vehicles, Texas Instruments (TI) is rolling out two solid-state relay chips designed to replace traditional automotive mechanical relays.

May 10, 2022 by Jeff Child

Renesas RAA227063 | Digital Datasheet

AAC’s Digital Datasheet video series introduces the specs and applications of components—both new and familiar—straight from their datasheets.

May 03, 2022 by Renesas Electronics