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Colour-coded pilot lamps speed installation and ease maintenance

Now available from Switchtec, the SCL range of pilot lamps is available in the ubiquitous 16 and 22mm diameters for panel use. Innovatively, the LED lamps have coloured terminals on the underside that are ‘coded’ to match the colour of the

Switchtec | Products | 23-04-2015

New 4Mb family of asynchronous SRAMs with on-chip error-correcting code

Cypress Semiconductor has announced it is sampling new 4Mb asynchronous SRAMs with error-correcting code (ECC), a feature which enables them to provide the highest levels of data reliability, without the need for additional error correct

Cypress | Products | 23-04-2015

Development and demo platform for Silicon Labs' sensors

Silicon Labs' Sensor-Puck development tool provides a convenient demo platform for Silicon Labs' Si114x optical sensors and Si701x/2x relative humidity and temperature sensors. The coin-cell battery operated SENSOR-PUCK is controlled b

Mouser Electronics | Products | 23-04-2015

Extended-trim range power modules for industrial and medical applications

To complement its existing UltiMod and Xgen platforms. Excelsys has introduced a new family of extended-trim range powerMod modules. The XgM XgN XgP XgQ modules are available with nominal output voltages of 5V, 12V, 24V and 48V respecti

Excelsys | Products | 23-04-2015

New 40V regulator family simplifies industrial system design

Adding to its popular PowerBlox family of DC-DC converter products, Exar has introduced a new line of 40V switching regulators. The XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 are synchronous step-down regulators supporting point-of-load (POL) supplies

EXAR Europe | Products | 23-04-2015

Snap-in aluminium power capacitors in compact packages down to 20mm x 25mm

A new series of miniaturized snap-in power aluminium capacitors has been introduced by Vishay. The range offer high capacitance from 820µF to 47,000µF in compact cases down to 20mm by 25mm. Designed for audio, industrial, and general powe

Vishay | Products | 23-04-2015

Most highly-integrated power management ICs for ultrabooks and tablets

Intersil has introduced a pair of highly-integrated power management ICs (PMICs) that enable the industry’s first credit card-size motherboards for high-end ultrabook and tablet computers powered by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. The single-ch

Intersil | New Technologies | 23-04-2015

New RF analysers offer high performance for spectrum monitoring

Narda Safety Test Solutions has expanded its NRA series of compact rack-mount RF analysers with the introduction of two new ‘RX’ models. Specifically designed for spectrum-monitoring applications they are now available from Link Microtek

Link Microtek | Products | 23-04-2015

New COM R2.1 Type 6 compact CPU module with 5th-generation Intel Core processors

Advantech has released its new COM Express R2.1 Compact Module in Type 6 pin-out module board format. The SOM-6896 is equipped with the latest 5th generation Intel Core Processor on a compact size 95x95mm COM Express, resulting in low powe

Advantech | Products | 23-04-2015

World's first continuous diabetic monitoring solution uses Bluetooth Smart technology

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that leading U.S. blood glucose monitoring giant, Dexcom, is now shipping what Dexcom claims is the world's first commercially-available continuous diabetic monitoring solution with continuous (24x7) remot

Nordic | 23-04-2015

High-current synchronous buck converter for high-efficiency systems

Designed as a high-efficiency voltage-mode synchronous buck converter operating from 4.5V to 21V input and generating output voltages down to 0.6V at up to 15A, ON Semiconductor's high-current NCP3232N synchronous buck converter is now a

Mouser Electronics | Products | 21-04-2015

Tiny piezoelectric sounders suit thin high-density electronic equipment designs

Taking advantage of extensive acoustic and mechanical design technology and high performance ceramics, Murata has developed the smallest lightweight surface-mount piezoelectric sounder family. Now available from TTI stock, s the tiny s

TTI Europe | Products | 21-04-2015

GP module includes all hardware and software needed to evaluate the C5517 DSP

The Texas Instruments (TI) TMDSEVM5517 is a general-purpose evaluation module which includes all the hardware and software needed to evaluate the C5517 DSP, a highly-integrated device in a simple package designed to reduce cost and devel

Texas Instruments | Products | 21-04-2015

Point-of-load DC-DC converters offers output current up to 0.5A

Available now from Farnell element14, Traco Power's range of non-isolated step down point-of-load (POL) DC-DC converters provides devices with output current up to 0.5A. As a result of their high efficiency they do not require heat sin

Farnell element14 | Products | 21-04-2015