Electronic Design News

Longest-Reach Serial Digital Interface

Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced it will showcase the most comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio of broadcast SDI video solutions available. This will be the first demonstration of the Gennum product line following Semtech’s acquisition of Gennum Corporation in March 2012. Semtech’s Gennum product line will be demonstrated at booth #N411, in Las Vegas next week at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) exhibition....

Low Power 5MBd Digital Optocouplers

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, announcedthe ACPL-M21L/021L/024L/W21L/K24Loptocouplerfamily. These optocouplers consume less power as compared to other similar 5MBd optocouplers in the market. The ACPL-x2xLoptocouplers are designed to meet customer needs for lower power, higher isolation voltage, and better common-mode rejection (CMR) performance, thanks to the excellent performance of the new LED...

USB 4-Port Hub Development Kit

Cypress offers a complete development kit for developing a fixed-function, very low-power Multi-TT 4-port USB 2.0 hub controller (48 TQFP package) that is production ready and USB-IF compliant.

Key Features:

• Multiple Transaction Translator.
• Compliance with USB 2.0 specification.
• 480/12/1.5-Mbps operation.
• Very Low-power consumption.
• Highly integrated solution for reduced BOM cost.
• Supports Internal or External Voltage regulation.
• Space Saving 7×7mm 48-pin TQFP package.
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64-Bit Quad-Core Processor

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ™ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and dual-core P5021 products feature a robust mix of accelerators, high-speed interfaces and security features, resulting in advanced embedded solutions ideally suited for power-conscious control plane applications.

The new products complement Freescale’s previously announced QorIQ P5020 and P5010...

DDR4 DRAM Module

Micron Technology, Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced development of its first fully functional DDR4 DRAM module. The company has begun sampling and has received feedback from major customers to support quick implementation for applications in 2013.

It is expected that the enterprise and micro-server markets will take full advantage of the new features and specifications designed into DDR4, accelerating early adoption of the technology....

Audio System Design Debugging Tools

XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, announces the release of its new XMOS Development Environment (XDE) tool suite with enhanced support for real-time system design.

Audio interfacing and signal processing systems require low-latency transport and predictable processing of data. To address this need, XMOS development tools incorporate the unique XScope and XMOS Timing Analyzer (XTA), which allow designers to verify functionality, meet timing...

CapSense Controller Board

The CY3280-22×45 Universal CapSense Controller Board provides customers with hardware to understand capacitive sensing and a software tool to set up and tune their project with minimal iterative code updates.

Please visit the Getting Started with PSoC 1 page which will guide you through your first steps. It provides basic information about software, technical documentation, training and support infrastructure.

Kit Contents

• CY3280-22×45 Universal CapSense Controller Board
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Ultra Fast-Mode I2C-Bus Controllers

NXP Semiconductors N.V. introduced the industry’s first high-performance I²C-bus controllers capable of handling both Fast-mode Plus (Fm+) and the new Ultra Fast-mode (UFm) specification, which has transmit-only data transfer rates up to 5 Mbit/s. By providing one very large 4.25-kB data buffer per channel and significantly reducing interrupts to the host processor, the PCx966x product family has been optimized for efficient I²C designs in repetitive data-intensive LED controller and...