Schurter’s RTS thermal fuse has got  a new variant with an integrated shunt. The RTS is a particularly compact overtemperature protection device for power semiconductors in SMD technology for highest demands. RTS stands for Reflowable Thermal Switch. It was developed to protect highly integrated power semiconductors from overheating. Prior to mechanical activation, the new thermal ...

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Renesas has announced two reference designs that simplify and speed the development of USB Power Delivery (PD3.0) and USB-C battery charging applications such as USB-C computing hubs, power banks, car chargers, SSD enclosures, point of sale (POS) printers, and desktop displays. The RTK-251-1PowerBank3 and RTK-251-BuckBoostConverter2 are USB-IF PD3.0 certified design kits, and represent the first ...

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SK Telecom says it has installed 34,000 5G base stations in 85 city centres giving it the world’s first installed public network.  “The AR, VR and cloud games unveiled today only mark the beginning of the age of Hyper-Innovation brought by 5G,” says SK CEO  Park Jung-ho, “SK Telecom will continue to introduce 5G-based innovative ...

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Later this year, Intel is to start sampling a 10nm FPGA series called Agilex. It will come in three variants, F, I and M with F coming first in Q3. Compared to Stratix 10, Intel claims that Agilex partsceliver up to 40% higher performance or 40% lower power and up to 40 TFLOPs of DSP ...

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Combined sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (known collectively as O-S-D devices) increased 9% in 2018 to reach a ninth consecutive record-high level of $82.4 billion, according to IC Insights’ new 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes. The new annual report shows total O-S-D sales growing ...

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A surge-protected, dual-driver IO-Linkdevice transceiver with integrated DC-DC buck regulator is available from Maxim. It is suitable  for industrial IO-Link sensors and actuator devices. Integrating the DC-DC regulator and surge protection, supporte  the trend towards shrinking IO-Link designs that need robust communications with faster time to market. . In addition, integrated surge protection and reverse ...

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AVX has has extended its TACmicrochip series with a 3216-footprint tantalum capacitor measuring just 0.5mm high. The first new “I” case capacitor (EIA Metric 3216-05) is rated for 10μF and 6.3V, but will be followed by future code releases to further extend the offering. The full line of TACmicrochip capacitors is available in 11 case ...

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