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Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

Guide to USB-C Pinout and Features

This introductory article will look at some of the most important features of the USB-C standard.


Choosing the Right Motor-Driver IC

Choosing the Right Motor-Driver IC

This article provides some practical guidance on how to evaluate integrated circuits intended for controlling brushed DC motors.


Vishay T55 vPolyTan Polymer Capacitors | Tech Specs

Vishay T55 vPolyTan Polymer Capacitors | Tech Specs

Vishay’s T55 series of vPolyTan™ Polymer Tantalum Chip Capacitors go as low as 7 milliohms, have very low internal resistance, and can handle ripple current as high as 5.66 amps RMS.


new products Dec 06, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Designing Smart Meters with Circuit Protection, Sensing, and Power Control Capabilities

Designing Smart Meters with Circuit Protection, Sensing, and Power Control Capabilities

This article offers an overview of the various component options for smart meter design and how they can improve the operation of the meters into which they are designed.


Engineer Spotlight: Jeremy Blum, Director of Hardware at Shaper on Collaborative Design

Engineer Spotlight: Jeremy Blum, Director of Hardware at Shaper on Collaborative Design

Computer vision, designers vs. engineers, and the "nightmare" of engineering Google Glass.


News Dec 03, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Vicor Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

Vicor Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

Vicor’s Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 evaluation board provides designers many convenient features to simplify evaluating the PI3740 buck-boost regulator.


Embedded System Design: Build from Scratch or Use an SBC?

Embedded System Design: Build from Scratch or Use an SBC?

This article explores the pros and cons of either designing embedded systems from scratch or utilizing pre-made single-board computers.


New Low-Power, Zero-Drift Operational Amplifier from Texas Instruments, the OPA2333P

New Low-Power, Zero-Drift Operational Amplifier from Texas Instruments, the OPA2333P

This article will take a look at the TI’s OPA2333P which is a micro-power high-precision operational amplifier.


News Nov 29, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Vishay T34 Wet Tantalum HI TMP | Tech Specs

Vishay T34 Wet Tantalum HI TMP | Tech Specs

Vishay’s T34 Wet Tantalum HI-TMP capacitors are life tested to up to 2000 hours at 200 degrees celsius.


new products Nov 29, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Toshiba TK040N65Z N-Channel 650V Power MOSFET | New Product Brief

Toshiba TK040N65Z N-Channel 650V Power MOSFET | New Product Brief

Toshiba’s TK040N65Z is a 650V n-channel enhancement mode power MOSFET in Toshiba’s DTMOS VI series and is designed to improve efficiency in high speed switching power supplies.


Supercapacitor Auto Balancing PCB from Advanced Linear Devices Expands to Six Channels

Supercapacitor Auto Balancing PCB from Advanced Linear Devices Expands to Six Channels

Auto-balancing gets complicated when handling more than two supercapacitor cells. The new board can balance up to six supercapacitors of any size.


News Nov 28, 2018 by Majeed Ahmad
Microchip Technology Introduces Tiny, Low-Power MEMS Clock Generator to Save Board Space

Microchip Technology Introduces Tiny, Low-Power MEMS Clock Generator to Save Board Space

Microchip Technology Introduces a Tiny, Versatile Clock Generator to Save Board Space and Power


News Nov 27, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
ROHM Semiconductor Automotive LED Drivers | New Product Brief

ROHM Semiconductor Automotive LED Drivers | New Product Brief

ROHM Automotive LED drivers include boost, buck-boost, constant current, and serial-in parallel-out variants.


Mean Well DDR Family DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

Mean Well DDR Family DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

Mean Well’s DDR family of DIN Rail DC-DC converters can address a broad range of applications, with power ratings from 15W to 240W.


KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS thermal reed switches provide precise, highly reliable thermal switching for energy saving applications.


Newest Dialog Semiconductor PMIC Tackles Big IoT Design Issue: Extending Battery Life for Wearables

Newest Dialog Semiconductor PMIC Tackles Big IoT Design Issue: Extending Battery Life for Wearables

Dialog Semiconductor's newest PMIC (power management IC) aims to help solve the battery life issue with wearables and other small, portable applications.


News Nov 20, 2018 by Kate Smith
An EV Made to Demo Motion Control: Monolithic Power Systems’ mCar Shows Off Angular Sensors

An EV Made to Demo Motion Control: Monolithic Power Systems’ mCar Shows Off Angular Sensors

The Monolithic Power Systems mCar EV demo at electronica 2018 showed off angle position sensors and motion control.


News Nov 19, 2018 by Kate Smith
Coilcraft 0805HP Ceramic Wire-Wound Chip Inductors | New Product Brief

Coilcraft 0805HP Ceramic Wire-Wound Chip Inductors | New Product Brief

Coilcraft 0805HP series ceramic wire-wound chip inductors are ideal for high frequency and high current applications.


Power Integrations Introduces New Family of Brushless DC Motor Drive ICs

Power Integrations Introduces New Family of Brushless DC Motor Drive ICs

Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch™ family of ICs achieve conversion efficiency of up to 98.5% in brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive applications of up to 300 W.


News Nov 16, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Integration of Isolation Products to Protect from Electrostatic Discharge

Integration of Isolation Products to Protect from Electrostatic Discharge

In any high voltage and electrical noise system, the electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity, an important aspect of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), is a key consideration in choosing a galvanic isolation device.