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ams OSRAM OSLON® Black Flat X LED Devices | New Product Brief

ams OSRAM OSLON® Black Flat X LED Devices | 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.


Silicon Labs EFR32MG24 Series 2 Multi-protocol Wireless SoCs | New Product Brief

Silicon Labs EFR32MG24 Series 2 Multi-protocol Wireless SoCs | 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.


Cree LED XLamp® XHP50.3 LEDs | New Product Brief

Cree LED XLamp® XHP50.3 LEDs | 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.


Sensors Up Their Game in Proximity and Position Detection

Sensors Up Their Game in Proximity and Position Detection

Leveraging a mix of technologies—including ultra-wideband (UWB), BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), and magnetics—companies are pushing new boundaries with their latest proximity and position sensor products.


News Jul 07, 2022 by Jeff Child
NEUTRIK USA powerCON® TRUE1 TOP Connector | Featured Product Spotlight

NEUTRIK USA powerCON® TRUE1 TOP Connector | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


“World’s First” Organic BJT—Could Organic Transistors Take Off?

“World’s First” Organic BJT—Could Organic Transistors Take Off?

Researchers at TU Dresden have created the "world's first" efficient organic bipolar junction transistor (OBJT).


News Jun 27, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Cree LED XLamp® XHP70.3 High-Intensity LEDs | New Product Brief

Cree LED XLamp® XHP70.3 High-Intensity LEDs | 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.


Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

By moving location calculation to the cloud, Semtech’s new service allows for lower-power LoRa devices to be embedded in tracked Internet of Things (IoT) assets.


News Jun 22, 2022 by Jeff Child
Introduction to Bluetooth Mesh Models

Introduction to Bluetooth Mesh Models

Learn about Bluetooth mesh models—namely what they are—as we lead you through an example and the different types like generic, lighting, etc.


PCB Layout Challenges—Improve Your Switched-mode Power Supply Designs

PCB Layout Challenges—Improve Your Switched-mode Power Supply Designs

Switched-mode power supplies (SMPS) appear simple to route on your PCB, but are they? This article identifies two noise sources and simple fixes to improve your EMC performance.


REAN LED Solutions | New Product Brief

REAN LED Solutions | 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.


Amphenol Commercial FLS Zhaga Book 18 Receptacles, Bases & Domes | New Product Brief

Amphenol Commercial FLS Zhaga Book 18 Receptacles, Bases & Domes | 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.


ST’s Single-chip Digital-power Controller Zeros in on LED Lighting

ST’s Single-chip Digital-power Controller Zeros in on LED Lighting

Using its patented time-shift control (TSC) method in its LLC resonant converter, the new digital power controller also packs a combination of a power-factor correction controller and a start-up generator.


News May 06, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
Microchip MCP39F511 Single-Phase Power-Monitoring ICs | Featured Product Spotlight

Microchip MCP39F511 Single-Phase Power-Monitoring ICs | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


TE Connectivity NECTOR T Pluggable Lighting Connector System | Featured Product Spotlight

TE Connectivity NECTOR T Pluggable Lighting Connector System | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Lighting Systems Get an IoT Facelift With Bluetooth Mesh

Lighting Systems Get an IoT Facelift With Bluetooth Mesh

Compared to other mesh networking protocols, Bluetooth mesh has the adoption rate and the specs to expand the infrastructure of smart lighting.


News May 02, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar
Cree LEDs LED XLamp® XP-G3 S-Line LEDs | New Product Brief

Cree LEDs LED XLamp® XP-G3 S-Line LEDs | 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.


From Collabs to Laser Modules—Efforts to Improve AR/VR Technology Keep on Rolling In

From Collabs to Laser Modules—Efforts to Improve AR/VR Technology Keep on Rolling In

Trying to keep the momentum building for AR/VR technology, Google targets a micro-LED company, Microsoft and Qualcomm teaming up, and ams OSRAM has a new laser module prototype.


News Apr 09, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski
Eleven T&M Functions, One Device: Liquid Instruments Introduces the “Instrument-on-Chip”

Eleven T&M Functions, One Device: Liquid Instruments Introduces the “Instrument-on-Chip”

With an FPGA at its heart, the Moku product series allows engineers to tap into a suite of programmable test instruments—all on a single device.


News Mar 28, 2022 by vishvachi
Shining a Light on Solid-state Green LEDs: Could C-GaN Be the Answer?

Shining a Light on Solid-state Green LEDs: Could C-GaN Be the Answer?

High-efficiency, solid-state green LEDs remain an elusive goal for semiconductor manufacturers. Research funded by ARPA-E targets these LEDs using standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processing tools.


News Mar 07, 2022 by Dale Wilson