Electronic Design News

Automotive-Grade TrenchMOS

NXP is making a significant expansion to its automotive MOSFET product portfolio. Its new automotive grade-technology, Trench 6, brings new levels of performance and manufacturing excellence to an already comprehensive base. With an initial product release in the industry-standard D2PAK the Trench 6 portfolio will be rolled out into all key automotive packages including NXP’s high performance, high reliability LFPAK56 Power-SO8 package. The new technology platform covers all key voltage...

42V, 2.5A Step-Down DC/DC Converter

Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT8610, a 2.5A, 42V input capable synchronous step-down switching regulator. Synchronous rectification delivers efficiency as high as 96% while Burst Mode® operation keeps quiescent current under 2.5µA in no-load standby conditions. The LT8610’s 3.4V to 42V input voltage range makes it ideal for automotive and industrial applications. Its internal 3.5A switches can deliver up to 2.5A of continuous output current to voltages as low as 0.97V. The...

Ten Degrees of Freedom Inertial Sensor

The ADIS16480 iSensor® device is a complete inertial system that includes a triaxial gyroscope, a triaxial accelerometer, triaxial magnetometer, pressure sensor, and an extended Kalman filter (EKF) for dynamic orientation sensing. Each inertial sensor in the ADIS16480 combines industry-leading iMEMS® technology with signal conditioning that optimizes dynamic performance.

The factory calibration characterizes each sensor for sensitivity, bias, alignment, and linear acceleration (gyroscope...

SAR ADC with SPICE Model

Texas Instruments Incorporated, today introduced a successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a downloadable TINA TI SPICE model, enabling system designers to simulate and characterize the full analog signal chain in software for the first time. The model is available for the new 12-bit, 1-MSPS, 8-channel ADS8028, a highly-integrated SAR ADC featuring a low-drift internal voltage reference, wide external analog voltage reference range, wide analog and...

PWM Solenoid Controller

The DRV110 is a PWM current controller for solenoids. It is designed to regulate the current with a well controlled waveform to reduce power dissipation. The solenoid current is ramped up fast to ensure opening of the valve or relay. After initial ramping the solenoid current is kept at peak value to ensure the correct operation, after which it is reduced to a lower hold level in order to avoid thermal problems and reduce power dissipation.

The peak current duration is set with an external...

Digital Controller for Isolated Power Supplies

The UCD3138 is a digital power supply controller from Texas Instruments offering superior levels of integration and performance in a single chip solution. The flexible nature of the UCD3138 makes it suitable for a wide variety of power conversion applications. In addition, multiple peripherals inside the device have been specifically optimized to enhance the performance of ac/dc and isolated dc/dc applications and reduce the solution component count in the IT and network infrastructure space....

LogiScope Logic Analyzer

LogiScope transforms an iPhone, iPad or iPod into a 100MHz, 16 channel logic analyzer. Not only is it the most intuitive logic analyzer available, the triggering is so powerful you’ll be able to count the hair on your bug.

Product Highlights

• 100 MHz, 16 channel logic analyzer
• Two logic harnesses (each with 8 digital, 1 ground)
• Protocol decoding: I2C, SPI, UART, Parallel
• Works with 2.0v, 2.5v, 3.3v & 5.0v systems
• Portable: goes where you go
• Input voltage -0.5v to +7v
• Advanced...

3-Axis High g MEMS Accelerometer

The ADXL377 is an analog, 3-axis, high g MEMS accelerometer with signal conditioned voltage outputs. The product measures acceleration with a minimum full-scale range of ±200 g. The ADXL377 is designed to measure dynamic acceleration resulting from high impact events without sensor saturation. The analog output of the ADXL377 provides for full visibility of an impact event so potentially critical data is not lost.

The user selects the bandwidth of the accelerometer using the CX, CY, and CZ...