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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has introduced two new leadless NTC thermistor dies — contacted on the top and bottom — that provide designers with the same mounting options as IGBT semiconductors. Featuring gold metallization, the Vishay BCcomponents NTCC300E4 supports gold wire bonding and conductive adhesive gluing, while the NTCC200E4 with silver metallization supports aluminum wire bonding and is compatible with reflow

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Responding to new requirements from utilities, Continental Control Systems, LLC has released a new firmware version for the Modbus Revenue energy meter providing for a Fast Power register reading which updates every 200 milliseconds. Option FP (Fast Power) supports utility feed-in limit requirements for those utilities that have limits on the ac power that may be fed into the grid

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XP Power‘s ASB110 series provides a complete ac-dc power supply module requiring no external components. The full-brick-sized power supplies offer very high efficiency and a low profile for PCB pin mounted designs. Aimed at ITE and industrial customers looking for a base plate cooled power supply solution, the ASB110 provides 110W of dc output power from a universal ac input.

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Murata has announced the latest addition to the OKLP range of “Power Block” products from Murata Power Solutions. In addition to the 25A and 35A, Murata now offers the OKLP-X/60-W12A-C, a 60A Power Block solution. This Power Block concept sits between a discrete Point-of-Load (PoL) design and that of a complete non-isolated buck converter module. The Power Block is essentially

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Stackpole Electronics, Inc. has extended the MLF and MLFM Series to include the smaller 0102 size. This part is approximately the size of an 0805 chip resistor and is rated up to 1/5 watt. Tolerances for this series range from ±5% down to ±0.1% and TCR’s range from ±100 ppm down to ±10 ppm, making the MLF and MLFM useful

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced a four-channel buck dc-dc converter with PMBus/I²C digital interface for applications in space-constrained equipment that experience high ambient operating temperature without cooling, such as small cell base stations, infotainment and solid state devices. The TPS65400 dual- or quad-output configurable dc-dc converter integrates eight power MOSFETs and features efficiency at up to 95-percent in a

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Linear Technology Corporationannounces the LTC3887, a dual output synchronous step-down dc-dc controller with I²C-based PMBus interface for digital power system management. The LTC3887 differs from the previously released LTC3880 with an enhanced feature set that includes a faster 70ms power-up time, higher output voltage capability and a fast ADC mode that provides an 8ms update rate for one parameter. In

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ProTek Devices today introduced a new series of ultra-low capacitance transient voltage suppressor arrays (TVS arrays) for overvoltage circuit protection in applications that include smartphones, Ethernet, USB, sensor nodes, and more. The series consists of five components with rated stand-off voltages between 5-24 Volts. The components are also packaged in a low-profile miniature DFN-2 package. Recommended: High-Voltage 16-Cell Li-ion Monitoring

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Battery applications designers are tasked with meeting increasingly stringent safety standards for ultra-thin notebooks and other portable consumer electronics powered by high-capacity lithium polymer and prismatic cells. In response, TE Connectivity’s business unit, TE Circuit Protection, introduces the new MHP-TAM series. The MHP-TAM device features an ultra-low-profile (L: 5.8mm x W: 3.85mm x H: 1.15mm max.) package and a high

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Lapis Semiconductor, a ROHM Group company, has announced the development of a lithium-ion battery monitoring LSI that supports up to 16 cells in series, significantly reducing the size of lithium-ion battery monitoring systems (for example in energy storage systems). The ML5239 facilitates multi-cell monitoring and allows for multi-stage series connection to support higher-voltage lithium-ion battery monitoring systems requiring more than

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