National Semiconductor is claiming a world record for its 12bit 3.6Gsample/s A-D converter. "It is the fastest 12bit available," Paul McCormack, product marketing...
Fastest ever 12bit ADC
Analogue and Discretes
Liquavista: Colour video e-books
E-readers could get colour video as Dutch firm Liquavista revealed a low-power monochrome reflective display that can be switched to a fast emissive colour mode.
Energy efficient lighting without LEDs
Guest columnist Tom Ribarich, director of lighting systems at International Rectifier, says that retail and street high intensity discharge (HID) lighting can benefit from efficient electronic ballast switches
No one needs a buzz on their mobile
Guest columnist John Whalen, senior business development manager at Fairchild Semiconductor, identifies the mechanisms that can cause unwanted noise in GSM mobile phones and offers practical solutions
IDT claims CMOS clock oscillator matches quartz
According to Michael McCorquodale, general manager of the IDT silicon frequency control business, this is the first time quartz-crystal-level performance is available with a CMOS oscillator in wafer form with high frequency accuracy
Silicon Labs buys MEMS start-up for clocks
The start-up, called Silicon Clocks has a process for the fabrication of MEMS resonators and other sensor structures directly on top of standard CMOS wafers
TI cuts power in highest-fi op-amps
Texas Instruments is introducing a family of low noise, low distortion operational amplifiers with a quiescent current of 1.8mA per channel. Aimed at broadcast studio equipment, analogue and digital mixing consoles...
‘Bell Swoosh’ Is The Pattern Of Semiconductor Recovery
The ‘Bell Swoosh’ will determine the pattern of the semiconductor industry recovery, according to Dave Bell, CEO of Intersil in a talk to the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz today.
Linear Tech protects portables from defective PSUs
Linear Technology has introduced a front-end over-voltage and over-current protection chip that stops errant power supplies blowing up portable electronics. "Overvoltage events can occur due to power adapter failure or faults...
How to get static protection for hot-swap boards
Protection from electrostaic discharge in hot-swappable systems can be implemented both on and off the board, writes Richard Wilson To protect hot-swappable boards from electrostatic discharge, Rittal has come up with an electrostatic discharge (ESD) facility which is designed to remove all built-up charge from the front panel of the plug-in board and so brings the panel to protective earth potential. ...
