The first 65nm ARM Cortex safety microcontrollers equipped with flash technology have arrived and gone into volume production, thanks to a collaborative effort between automotive-supply company Continental and Texas Instruments (TI)....More
Probably the number one most interesting thing I saw at the PCIM show in Nuremberg, Germany last week wasn’t an IGBT, or even a MOSFET. It was a battery....More
According to Altera, version 13.0 of its Quartus II FPGA design software promises a 25% reduction in compile times for 28-nm FPGAs and SoCs, on average, with up to 50% reduction for the most difficult 28- nm Stratix V FPGAs....More
Designed specifically for Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications, NXP’s latest NextPower Live MOSFET family provides twice the level of inrush current capability of existing MOSFETs....More
Intersil’s ISL6730A active power factor correction (PFC) controller delivers minimal harmonic distortion (THD) and high power factor, says the company....More