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AVX Corporation has introduced the lowest profile poke-home connector currently available on the market. Featuring its industry-proven 2mm dual beam, high spring-force, phosphor bronze poke-home contacts in a sleek 3.0mm pitch by 2.5mm high SMT package, the new horizontal 9296 Series connector is certified to UL 1977 and CAN/CSA C22.2 specifications, and accepts any combination of 20-26AWG solid or stranded

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GE’s Critical Power business has expanded its Hammerhead series of dc-dc modules with its new 228-W quarter-brick QHHD019A0B isolated dc-dc converters. The low-height modules provide a single, precisely-regulated output voltage over an ultra-wide input voltage range of 18- to 75-Vdc. These cost-effective and energy- and space-efficient dc-dc converters enable input power flexibility for board designers while providing a common building

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CUI Inc. announced the expansion of its 12W and 24W US wall power adapter series to meet the new Level VI efficiency standards. The SWI12-SC and SWI24-SC series meet the more stringent average efficiency and no load input power requirements set to go into effect in February 2016. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Level VI standards aim to significantly

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STMicroelectronics, Inc. has combined its ultra low-power microcontroller technology with ARM® Cortex®-M4 know-how to create the STM32L4 series for next-generation energy-conscious consumer, industrial, medical, and metering, Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The first two microcontrollers in the series, the STM32L476 and STM32L486, feature the 80MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core with DSP and floating-point unit (FPU). With the added advantage of the

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Linear Technology Corporationannounces the LT8312, a power factor correction (PFC) boost controller that can achieve a power factor of greater than 0.99 by actively modulating the input current, allowing compliance with most harmonic current emission requirements. This device operates with current mode control and critical conduction mode, which is a variable frequency switching scheme that returns the current to zero

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Infineon Technologies AG has launched its LITIX™ Basic family of LED drivers specifically designed for low-power to medium-power automotive exterior lighting applications. The high-integration LED driver family reduces system complexity and improves reliability of turn indicator, tail, stop and reverse LED lights. By reducing part count and offering more features than discrete design approaches, the LITIX Basic family allows automotive

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DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials(DuPont) today announced the launch of its DuPont™ Pyralux® high-temperature (HT) flexible circuit material system. Pyralux® HT has a service temperature of 225 degrees Celsius, the highest of any flexible circuit material system available today. The Pyralux® HT service temperature enables designers to use flexible circuits for the first time in high-temperature environments such as aerospace

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SynQor, Inc. announces the addition of two higher power dc-dc converters to its RailQor line of products. These new converters triple the usable power in the quarter-brick footprint to 150W. In the half-brick package the power capability is increased to 252W, five times the level that was previously available. These ruggedized, next-generation, board-mountable, isolated, fixed switching frequency dc-dc converters use

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AVX Corporation has extended the lifespan of its THH 230 degrees C Hermetic Series high temperature SMD tantalum capacitors to 10,000 hours at 200 degrees C and 50% derating. Available in two large case sizes (9/CTC-21D and I) that provide high capacitance values spanning 22µF to 100µF, THH Series capacitors feature the highest temperature ratings of any SMD tantalum capacitor

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Spansion Inc. today announced its first automotive-grade, six-channel power management IC for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). This highly-efficient, multi-rail power management solution features solid control pins for each rail, precise voltage integrity monitors and a windowed watchdog timer to lower the system heat, complexity and solution cost for an ADAS implementation. The product family also supports the automotive safety

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