Effective immediately, Dr. Norman Sheridan takes over responsibility for technology and manufacturing. Up to now, Sheridan was responsible for Flash Products. Before coming to Zilog he was Director of...

International Rectifier has introduced the PVG612A series of microelectronic relays (MER). Packaged in a six-pin DIP, the PVG612A is used in a variety of switching applications, including programmable...

C&D Technologies has expanded its range of board mounted isolated DC/DC converters with a series of dual output, 3W devices in miniature SIP packaging. Converters in the NDH series have a wide 2:1 inp...

Texas Instruments announced a series of 200-mA low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) in a 1.5 mm x 1 mm chip scale package -- 80 percent smaller than SOT-23 devices. The TPS799xx LDOs deliver 29.6 µV(R...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the TMP86FP24F, a 8-bit microcontroller that integrates 48Kbyte Flash memory and LCD direct-drive capabilities. Designers may choose the Flash-based device for...

After a lapse of 6 months, the American semiconductor specialist Sipex at last has a CEO again. Ralph Schmitt comes from Cypress where he was in charge of Sales and Marketing and will now take over th...

Tyco Electronics Power Systems presents a CO2  gas sensor for forthcoming passenger-car air condi-tioning units that, instead of containing HFC-based R134a, utilize the alternative coolant R744 (...