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Diodes Incorporated has extended its line of ultra-small discrete products for space-critical product design. The company has announced a trio of small-signal MOSFETs in the tiny DFN0606 package: 20V and 30V rated N-channel transistors and a 30V rated P-channel part. With a footprint measuring only 0.6mm x 0.6mm, each device takes 40% less board space than the commonly used DFN1006

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Semtech Corp. today announced the RClamp3346P, a high-performance, ultra-low capacitance transient voltage suppression (TVS) device to protect the USB 3.0 interface in computing and mobile devices from electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. The RClamp3346P supplements Semtech’s current USB protection portfolio by providing ultra-low clamping voltage performance and low dynamic resistance in an easy-to-lay-out package. Current USB 3.0 protection schemes usually call

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Torex Semiconductor, Ltd. has developed the XC6190 series of push button reboot controllers, which are used for system reboot by means of a signal input from external buttons such as on a wearable device. With an operating voltage range of 1.75- to 6-Vdc, these controllers feature a low quiescent current in the standby state of 0.01µA (typical). On internally-fixed reboot

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AVX Corporation has introduced a new series of high CV wet tantalum capacitors that approach the ultra-high volumetric capacitance densities of aqueous supercapacitors, as well as surmount their temperature and soldering limitations. Developed using a novel design process based on high CV tantalum powders, the new TWD DCUltraMax™ Series High CV Wet Tantalum Capacitors achieve extremely high dc capacitance values

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Pulse Electronics Corporationintroduces a new series of high isolation switch mode transformers that come in a standard SMT package. Pulse Electronics’ PH9185 series provides a reinforced insulation power supply that’s compatible with the MAX253, from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., to power RS-485/RS-232 transceivers. The transformers operate in a fixed duty cycle push-pull topology that delivers lower power (up to 3W)

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Musking? What the hell is that, right? Well, it actually makes a lot of sense — it’s simply blocking in gas-powered cars that have parked in electric vehicle charging stations. This is a predictable reaction to the relatively common practice of ICEing — which is, to say, the practice and art of parking your gas-guzzler in EV charging s and pretending to

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Pictures of Tesla’s new underground Supercharger station in London recently came to my attention, and while I won’t say that I’m surprised by them (given Elon Musk’s flair for the dramatic/stylish/futuristic), they are more interesting than I would have guessed. Who would have thought that what is, essentially, just a gas station, could look so interesting. (Not necessarily a knock

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Project developers are flocking to Telangana to take advantage of the power-deficient scenario prevalent in these states. Following the separation of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, the power generation assets were distributed between the present-day Andhra Pradesh and the newly created state of Telangana. This somehow worsened the power supply situation in the two states. Both are now competing to secure any

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Neah Power Systems, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to merge withShorai, Inc. This merger is expected to be immediately accretive with Shorai reporting over $4.0 million (unaudited) revenue in for the twelve months ended December 2014 and was cash flow positive for the fourth quarter of 2014. The combined organization, which will be called Neah Power Systems, will deliver

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Tripp Lite has introduced a market first; network-grade PDUs with a built-in Gigabit Ethernet switch. These PDU Ethernet Switch Combos merge a PDU and unmanaged network switch into a single 1U device, saving IT managers valuable rack space. The NSU-G16 offers 8 outlets and 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports, while the NSU-G24C2 features 12 outlets and 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Both

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