Xilinx announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. The Virtex-6 LX760 device is ideal for application that requires intensive computational performance and high logic density. The Virtex-6 LX760 device has 1,200 SelectIO pins, 758.784 logic cells and 25,920Kbits Block RAM. LX760 device is optimized to tradeoff high-...

Analog Devices announced the availability of its ADF4158 PLL synthesizer which enables implementation of FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) radar systems. FMCW radar systems are used in automotive, aerospace, military, industrial and communications applications to remotely measure the relative distance and speed of external objects.&nbs...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a range of optically coupled isolators designed to drive IGBTs and power MOSFETs in applications requiring output currents up to ±6.0A. The TLP358 family of driver IC photocouplers is for industrial inverters, AC/DC servos, induction heating systems, factory automation equipment and other applic...

The TRACE32 debuggers from Lauterbach, the manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, now support the ARM Cortex-A5 processor. The Cortex-A5 micro architecture is delivered within either a single core processor or a scalable multicore processor, the Cortex-A5 MPCoreTM, which consists of up to four Cortex-A5 cores in a cluster. They are desig...

Maxim introduces the MAX9617/MAX9618, zero-drift, rail-to-rail operational amplifiers. Packaged in 6-pin SC70 (single) and 8-pin SC70 (dual) packages, these devices are designed to operate from 1.8V to 5.5V supplies. The MAX9617/MAX9618 are ideal for a wide variety of portable medical applications. The ICs achieve both a 10µV (max) input-offs...

This year Varta Microbattery GmbH was present with a booth on the International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians. The 54th International Hearing Aid Acousticians Congress took place from 21 to 23 October 2009 in the Congress Centre in Nuremberg. Varta Microbattery focused their presentation on rechargeable hearing aid batteries. These high-perf...

RS Components announced the expansion of its test and measurement portfolio with the introduction of LeCroy, a manufacturer of oscilloscopes and serial data test solutions. Included in the RS range is WaveAce series of six dual-channel, colour screen oscilloscopes, providing bandwidths from 60 MHz to 300 MHz, sample rates up to 2 GS/s and waveform...

STMicroelectronics introduced a three-axis sensor with digital output that can detect accelerations up to 24g, or about 5x the force created by a Formula One car under heavy braking. The LIS331HH provides accurate output across full-scale ranges of ±6/±12/±24g. The medium-g sensing enables high-level vibration monitoring and hi...

ON Semiconductor introduced a Class D Audio Amplifier with an integrated charge pump. The NCP2830 is a 1W constant power filterless device that delivers continuous audio output to an 8.0 Ω Bridge Tied Load (BTL) with less than 1 percent total harmonic distortion - even if the input voltage varies. Housed in a 20-pin QFN package measuring 3 mm...

Atmel announced that the BitCloud ZigBee PRO stack has been awarded ZigBee Smart Energy product certification. BitCloud Smart Energy offers utility companies a secure technology for wireless home area networks (HANs) by connecting in-premise devices, such as meters, thermostats and smart appliances, to each other and to wide area energy distributio...