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Silanna LiDAR laser firing ICs combine charging and firing

Alun Williams — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:46:35 +0000

Silanna Semiconductor is announcing its FirePower laser firing system ICs are now available in production quantities. They aim at LiDAR and rangefinder applications. Specifically, there is the SL2001 (above) and ...

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Singapore shines as photonics centre as Asia Photonics Expo 2026 begins

Caroline Hayes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:52:57 +0000

The importance of Singapore as a technology hub was reinforced today at the opening of the Asia Photonics Expo (APE) 2026. This year’s APE (4-6 February) is at Sands Expo ...

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Diodes launches API772x RobustISO isolation devices

Alun Williams — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:59:40 +0000

Diodes has announced its API772x RobustISO products, a series of dual-channel digital isolators. Suggested applications – for digital signals in critical applications – include industrial automation, energy power systems, and ...

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Melexis launches hi-res 22-bit inductive encoder

David Manners — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:17:33 +0000

Melexis has announced the MLX90520 – a reference inductive encoder IC with 22-bit resolution for rotary & linear movement. The MLX90520 fulfills the demand for high-accuracy, cost-effective position sensing in ...

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RFID tag chip for Rain UHF passive RFID tags

Steve Bush — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:11:45 +0000

NXP has created a read-write chip for high-volume RFID tag applications complying to Rain Alliance standards for UHF passive tags. It is branded ‘Ucode X’ and delivered in wafer form. ...

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Dual 12-bit 170Msample/s ADCs with DSP

Steve Bush — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:30:25 +0000

Silanna Semiconductor has added onboard DSP variants to its family of ADCs. “The integration of a DSP brings several functions on-chip, including decimation, digital down-conversion, interleaving and IQ-mismatch correction – ...

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IC pair provides power and gate drive to isolated silicon carbide mosfets

Steve Bush — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:16:58 +0000

Allegro MicroSystems has created a pair of ICs that transmit isolated control signals and power to silicon carbide mosfet gates. AHV85003 is the transmitter and AHV85043 is the receiver, which ...

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TI’s easier-to-use precision voltage reference

Steve Bush — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:42:13 +0000

TI has remained remarkably quiet about its latest precision voltage reference IC: REF81. It is a modified form of the equally quietly released REF80, which is a temperature-controlled buried Zener ...

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Brushed motor drivers

Steve Bush — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:07:43 +0000

For brushed dc motors, Rohm has developed a pair of driver ICs. BD60210FV is for two 8 – 18V 1A motors (4A peak) and comes in a 5 x 6.4mm ...

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CES: Solar harvester works from 5µA to 1A

Steve Bush — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:48:24 +0000

E-peas has announced an solar harvesting power management IC that can accept inputs from 5µA to 1A “spanning the full dynamic range of hybrid indoor-outdoor photo-voltaic cells”, it said. “These ...

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