ZMDI presents 12 new members of its converter family SARah. The A/D-converters ZADC510x and ZADC512x have a Dual Core and operate with sampling rates of up to 1MSample/s. The Dual-Core enables developers to make use of applications which require the parallel sampling of 2 signals. The family, which operates on the principle of successive approximat...

Texas Instruments introduced a 3.2-W, mono Class-D audio amp with an integrated digital-to-analog converter (DAC) noise filter that reduces codec noise by as much as 82 percent, compared to devices without this feature. 3.2-W into 4 Ohms at 5 V produces 22 percent louder audio than competing solutions with no audible pop, a common challenge in port...

Cynergy3 Components Ltd. has introduced the 2 series sub miniature reed relays, for high voltage isolation in RF applications in the 1-30Mhz range. The reed relays use rhodium contacts in a vacuum environment, offering the best isolation voltage of 1.5kV across contacts, low contact resistance of 200mOhms and optimized lifetime of 1 x 109 dry switc...

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...