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A family of clock ICs from Silego Technology integrates the tuning-fork crystal function into standard CMOS silicon. Most electronic systems contain a low frequency and ultra-low power 32.768kHz crystal for time keeping, system wa... More about "Green" Clock Generator

National Semiconductor claims that it has produced the industry's first LED driver with dynamic headroom control and multiple outputs for high-power applications that accurately and efficiently drives up to four strings of LEDs. T... More about LED driver has dynamic headroom control

A touch-sensor controller from STMicroelectronics can replace buttons in mobile phones, portable consumer products and appliances. It allows a touch sensor to be used for main power-on/off control or to trigger wake-up from batter... More about Single-Channel Touch IC

Semtech has released the SX1508 and SX1509, two advanced, low-voltage, level shifting I/O expanders that come in 8 - and 16-channels, respectively, with an advanced LED driver and keypad engine capability. With an operating voltag... More about Low-voltage, level shifting I/O expanders feature on-chip keypad engine

The A8732 and A8735 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe are two ultra-small Xenon photoflash charger ICs. They are compact, robust and cost-effective to meet the requirements of very low power, small form-factor cameras and camera ph... More about Two Robust Photoflash Charger ICs

STMicroelectronics has introduced a low-power IC containing all the functions necessary to control an OFN (optical finger navigation) module or optical joystick. The VD5376 optical joystick controller helps users interact with the... More about Single-Chip Controller IC

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the availability of three bridge chips for use in mobile phones: the TC358740XBG, is a MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) camera serial interface to an MDDI (Mobile Display Digital ... More about Three Bridge Chips

A series of single-chip controller ICs from STMicroelectronics deliver 12bit colour processing capabilities, enhanced colour fidelity and DisplayPort connectivity. DisplayPort, is the open digital-interface standard developed by V... More about LCD Controller SoC

Maxim claims it has developed the industry's lowest power, fastest and smallest UART to communicate over an SPI or I²C interface. The MAX3107 interfaces an SPI or I2C synchronous serial microprocessor bus to asynchronous, serial d... More about Integrated SPI/I2C UART

Highly integrated, programmable gamma-correction reference systems with MTP (multiple-time programmable) memory reduce costs in TFT LCDs design by eliminating multiple discrete components. The MAX9672/MAX9673/MAX9674 10bit gamma-c... More about Gamma-Correction

A programmable system-on-chip dual USB 2.0 host/ slave controller.- Handles USB host interfaces and data transfer functions using the in-built 16-bit enhanced MCU with 256 kbyte Flash and 16kbyte RAM.- Royalty-free flexible ‘C’ la... More about Vinculum VNC2 : Speed. Flexibility. Performance

Rohm Semiconductor has developed USB-host audio-decoder ICs compatible with MP3 compression. The BU9457KV is MP3-only, while the BU9458KV is compatible with the MP3, WMA and AAC audio compression formats. The compact, monolithic U... More about USB-Host Audio-Decoder IC

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced an upgraded module for its West Bridge peripheral controllers that offer a fast sideloading solution for transfer of multimedia files from a PC to a handheld device through the MTP (media trans... More about Peripheral controller enables quick sideloading of feature-length movies

NXP Semiconductors has introduced the UBA2028, a fully integrated high-voltage power IC that drives dimmable CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps). The IC enables lighting manufacturers to create high-quality CFLs that rival incandesce... More about IC Drives Energy-Saving Lamp

Synopsys has added the new DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line. Targeted at mobile and high-volume consumer applications such as smartphones, mobile Internet devices and netbooks, the solution supports... More about USB 2.0 PHY IP solution supports battery charging version 1.1

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced the MAX7360, a key-switch controller featuring multiple key press/release detection on up to 64 keys, plus eight GPIOs/LED drivers and advanced ESD protection. Individual key codes for each... More about Key-switch controller provides advanced ESD protection

A family of high-performance SATA and SAS host-bus adapters, based on 6Gbit/s SAS technology, is available from LSI. The SAS 9200 adapters are based on the company's SAS2008 6Gbit/s SAS controller IC and are claimed to offer new l... More about 6Gbit/s Host-Bus Adapters

Evatronix SA has updated its SDIO-Host controller to meet new specifications and supports SD 3.0, SDIO 2.0 and MMC/eMMC 4.4 standards. These specifications support SDXC cards, which go beyond the 32Gbyte limit of SDHC products and... More about SDIO-host controller supports UHS-I interface

NEC Electronics offers a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 SOC (system-on-a-chip) design solution that customers can use to develop custom USB 3.0 products. The SOC design solution reduces risk, improves efficiency and speed time to ... More about SOC design solution enables development of custom USB 3.0 products

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced the enCoRe V Full-Speed USB peripheral MCUs (microcontrollers) and enCoRe V LV (low voltage) wireless MCUs. The new highly-integrated families offer up to 32Kbyte of flash memory, three 16bit t... More about Full-speed USB and low-voltage wireless controllers provide design flexibility

Handles USB host interfaces and data transfer functions using the in-built 8 or 32-bit V-MCUConfigurable options to interface via UART, FIFO or SPI slave interface2x USB 2.0 Slow speed or Full speed host or Slave ports.  Royalty f... More about VINCULUM VNC EMBEDDED USB HOST CONTROLLER IC

Intersil has introduced a series of VLTs (voltage logic level translators) featuring improved ESD protection and 100Mbit/s data rates for translating fast data streams. The ISL3034E and ISL3035E are six-channel, auto-direction sen... More about Bi-directional logic level translators feature improved ESD protection

Analog Devices has unveiled the ADP5588 mobile I/O expander and QWERTY keypad controller with ambient light sensing for smart portable devices that require large keypad matrix and expanded I/O lines. The device integrates keypad s... More about Analog Devices unveils a mobile I/O expander

Texas Instruments has introduced a high-efficiency, high-power PoE (Power-over-Ethernet) controller for 13 or 26W PD (powered device) applications such as IP phones, wireless access points or security cameras. Fully compliant to t... More about Texas Instruments introduces high-power PoE controller