A smart power-management IC recently rolled out by Nexperia can efficiently extract tiny amounts of power from energy sources such as light and vibration to run wireless sensors, wearables, and other ...

In portable consumer electronic products, Hall-effect sensors offer increased reliability as well as cost and/or performance advantages over mechanical switches. Selecting the right configuration of a ...

Power Integrations has expanded its InnoSwitch family of off-line CV/CC QR flyback switcher ICs, featuring a 1,250-V PowiGaN switch. Claimed as the industry’s highest-voltage, single-switch ...

Microchip has created a four-channel thermocouple measurement IC with ±1.5°C accuracy. “MCP9604 delivers accuracy at four thermocouple locations by using higher-order NIST ITS-90 equations rather than ...

In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, damage and yield losses attributed to the effects of static charges are well documented along with the determination of many of the specific causes. 1 If ...

iC-Haus will demonstrate its latest 26bit resolution optical encoder IC at SPS next month in Nuremberg. iC-RT2624, as it will be known, is aimed at both housed and kit encoders, and will achieve its ...