Exar appointed Paul Pickering Senior Vice President of Marketing. Pickering has over 26 years of semiconductor marketing and sales experience and most recently was the Vice President of Field Operations for Innovative Silicon: Prior to Innovative Silicon, HE was executive vice-president of sales and...

Vector Fields releases a new version of its Concerto software tool for high-frequency electromagnetic design. Concerto v7 includes 64-bit PC processing support, better distributed processing of simulations, greatly improved support for exploiting periodicity in designs, and a highly innovative optim...

Maxim introduces the MAX8625A, a single-inductor, H-bridge, step-up/down DC-DC converter with seamless transition switching. Maxim's transition H-bridge topology utilizes three operating phases during each switching cycle to achieve glitch-free buck-boost transitions. The MAX8625A provides up to 92%...

STMicroelectronics has added 8-bit MCUs using its STM8 core, by introducing the STM8S family specified for the industrial temperature range. The 8-bit STM8 core has a 32-bit memory interface and three-stage pipeline, achieving 20 MIPS peak processing performance at 24MHz. A stack pointer and 16-bit ...

Freescale announced the five finalists invited to compete in the company’s first green engineering design contest. The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Design Challenge Europe finalists will strive to develop the next generation of sustainable embedded systems based on Freescale’s energy-efficient t...

Epcos has extended its 3-line EMC filters by a series for frequency converters. It is distinguished by outstanding attenuation properties that offer decisive advantages especially with long motor leads. Cable-based measurements of commercial frequency converters showed that the EN 55011 limits were ...

STMicroelectronics has announced a 3D orientation sensor. The FC30 device embeds both 3D orientation functionality and click/double-click detection allowing developers to integrate mouse-button controls. The sensor is a 14-pin LGA device measuring 3 x 5 x 0.9mm. The device's three external interrupt...