Featured Products Supplement June 2016 by EEWeb Magazines

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Fast-Recovery Rectifier Diode

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC rolled out its fast-recovery rectifier diode series that incorporates a Schottky barrier diode (SBD) for temperature detection. The FMKS series is used for thermal protection of switching power supplies for various applications and is offered by Allegro and manufactured and developed by Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan...Read More

Noise-Immune Capacitive Sensor

The FDC2214 is an EMI-resistant, noise-immune capacitance-todigital converter for proximity and level sensing applications. This device employs an innovative narrow-band based architecture to offer high rejection of noise and interferers while providing high resolution at high speed. It supports a wide excitation frequency range, offering flexibility in system design. A wide frequency range is especially useful for reliable sensing of conductive liquids such as detergent, soap and ink...Read More

30 W Triple Output Power Supply

The MTMC-0309 is a triple output, medical grade ultraminiature switching power supply with DIN rail mount kit. This decive operates with an input voltage range from 90 to 264 VAC. It has an efficiency of 75-80 % at a typical full load conditions...Read More

Digi-Key Expands ARM Partnership

Digi-Key Electronics announces they have expanded their distribution engagement with ARM to include all of Asia. “ARM DS-5 and Keil MDK are industry-leading software tools for devices utilizing ARM technology,” said René Fabricius, senior manager global distribution at ARM. “The widespread availability of ARM-based evaluation boards and developer tools on the DigiKey line card, along with Digi-Key’s commitment to servicing our mutual customers worldwide, has driven ARM’s decision to extend our successful distribution partnership.” ...Read More

High-Speed Measurement DAQ Software

HBM developed a professional software for high-speed measurement data acquisition called Perception. This software is capable of acquiring measurement data with maximum sampling rates together with HBMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Genesis HighSpeed series. It offers more than standard data acquisition software. Perception is designed for fast and reliable processing of large amounts of data and is therefore ideal for high-speed data acquisition... Read More

Watson APIs for IoT

The STR4A100 series are off-line PWM controllers with integrated sensing MOSFET intended for switching power supplies. The device features rent-mode type PWM control, random switching function, slope compensation function and leading edge blanking function...Read More

Radiation Hardened OpAmp

The ISL70244SEH, developed by Intersil, is a 19 MHz radiation hardened low power operational amplifier. The device features two low power amplifiers optimized designed to provide maximum dynamic range. The device also features a dual rail-to-rail operation on the input and ouput. The ISL70244SEH also offer low power, low offset voltage, and low temperature drift, making it ideal for applications requiring both high DC accuracy and AC performance...Read More

Bus-Compatible DPWM Controller

The IXDP610PI is digital PWM controller featuring microcomputer bus-compatibility, and two complementary outputs for direct control of a switching power. It has two modes of operation; the 7-bit or 8-bit, and offers a programmable dead-time counter that prevents overlapping switching. The DWPM controller is designed to be operated under the direct control of a microprocessor and interfaces easily with most standard microprocessor and microcomputer buses. It is capable of operating at PWM frequencies from zero to 390 kHz....Read More

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3 A High Reliability EMI Filter

The EFJ2803 is a high reliability EMI filter with 3 Amps throughput current and input voltage range of 0 – 50 VDC. It utilizes all ceramic capacitors, surface mount magnetics and ultrasonically bonded aluminum wires to provide reliable operation at all operating temperatures while surviving very high G forces. This filter has been designed to reduce the input line reflected ripple current to within the limit of MIL-STD-461C, CE03 ...Read More

High Performance Bonding Epoxy Resin System

The EP21ARHT is a two-component epoxy adhesive, sealant, coating, and encapsulation system featuring high bond strength, and exceptional chemical resistance to acids. The EP21ARHT has convenient 100 to 50-mix ration by weight and is formulated to cure at ambient temperature or more quickly at elevated temperatures ...Read More

Remote Display Digital Multimeter

The Fluke 233 is a flexible digital multimeter that allows the user to acquire measurements in different scenarios all at once. The display is removable making it very convenient for hard-toreach places and hazardous areas. It uses low power wireless technology that allows the device to be carried up to 10 meters (33 ft) away from the point of measurement...Read More

LoRa® Technology Eval Kits for LPWAN

Microchip Technology Inc. introduced its first complete LoRa® technology evaluation kits. The new kits provide customers with all required components to create a Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) in Europe (DV164140-1 for the 868 MHz band) or North America (DV164140-2 for the 915 MHz band). Each kit includes two Motes (LoRaWAN™ sensors) based on Microchip’s RN2483 or RN2903 LoRa modules, a LoRaWAN gateway and a local LoRaWAN server applicatio...Read More

GMR-Based Magnetic Angle Sensors

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announced the availability of Infineon Technologies’ TLE5012B GMR-Based angle sensors. The sensor is based on an integrated Giant Magneto Resistive (iGMR) technology, which combines magneto resistive sensing elements with integrated circuits in a single chip...Read More

Extremely Small Triple Buffer

The 74LVC3G16GN is an extremely thin and small triple buffer. It operates with a wide supply voltage range from 1.65 V to 5.5. It can also be interfaced directly with TTL levels. The inputs can be driven from either 3.3 V or 5 V devices. This feature allows the use of the 74LVC3G16 as a translator in a mixed 3.3 V and 5 V environment...Read More

G4 Digital DC Input Modules

Onlinecomponents.com, an authorized distributor of Opto-22 products, feature the G4 DC input modules. The devices are used to detect on/off DC voltage levels. Each module can provide up to 4000 volts of optical isolation between field inputs and the logic output of the circuit...Read More

Galvanically Isolated Gate Driver ICs

Power Integrations unveiled a family of galvanically isolated single-channel gate driver ICs ranging in output current from 2.5 A to 8 A – the industry’s highest output current without an external booster. SCALE-iDriver™ ICs, optimized for driving both IGBTs and MOSFETs, are the first products to bring Power Integrations’ pioneering FluxLink™ magneto-inductive bi-directional communications technology to 1200 V driver applications ...Read More

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Full Bridge DC Brush Motor Driver

The BD62321HFP is a full bridge driver designed for brush motor applications. The device can operate at a wide range from 6 V to 32 V of power supply voltages with output currents of up to 3 A. MOS transistors in the output stage allow PWM speed control. The BD62321HFP is pin compatible with the BD623xHFP series.... Read More

Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lowest-Power IC for Single-Wavelength Socionext Inc., announces the launch of the MB8AJ2060, its 100G per wavelength, fully-integrated transceiver based on DiscreteMultitone (DMT) modulation. With a power dissipation of less than 5W, this system-on-chip sets a new record for transmission of 100Gbps using a single wavelength...Read More

Analog Devices’ Dual-Channel Colorimeter For this installment of Inside the Lab, EEWeb engineer Josh Bishop examines ADI’s Dual-Channel Colorimeter, the CN0363. A colorimeter is used to measure light absorption by a solution to determine concentration of a solute. The CN0363 is not a typical evaluation board, and is full of components from ADI, but in this video, we’ll focus on the op-amps and ADC that are at the core of this colorimeter.

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THE MODULATED LIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH A BEAM SPLITTER, SENDING HALF OF THE LIGHT THROUGH THE SAMPLE SOLUTION AND THE OTHER THROUGH A KNOWN REFERENCE SOLUTION. This colorimeter uses an FPGA to perform digital synchronous demodulation, which provides a number of advantages over the analog equivalent. One is that the analog demodulation hardware is removed, lowering the noise floor. Second, the light source is modulated using a sine wave rather than a square wave, eliminating the harmonic noise of the square wave. This leaves us with phase mismatch and drift as the two big remaining challenges. Phase mismatch can be addressed much easier in the FPGA than in hardware with things like variable caps. Drift, is addressed through calibration, but by using the right hardware you’re able to reduce the calibration effort. Back to the light sources, the modulated light travels through a beam splitter, sending half of the light through the sample solution and the other through a known reference solution. Photodiodes are used to detect the light level and the output current is converted to a voltage by a transimpedance amplifier.

does it eliminate drift at this point, but it also keeps the noise floor low for greater sensitivity. The output of the ADA4528 is connected to the input of the ADC, another possible source of drift. For the CN0363, ADI uses the AD7175-2, a 24-bit, 250 kSPS sigma delta ADC with an integrated 2.5 V low drift reference. This is the only source of drift, and it is well specified making it easier to account for in calibration. This combination of software with the right hardware reduces BOM cost, design time, and calibration frequency and complexity. The sampled data is passed via the SPI interface to the FPGA, where the demodulation is applied to measure the light absorbed by the sample solution compared to the reference and displays the results on the screen. Analog Devices’ AD7175 ADCs and ADA4528 amplifiers provide the performance and capabilities necessary for demanding applications like this dual-channel colorimeter, and they also lead to a lower cost, simpler design with improved dynamic range and sensitivity. To view the demo, click here. For more information, visit Arrow.com.

A transimpedance amplifier is an opamp configuration that converts current into a voltage and is one part of the design where drift is a concern. ADI used the ADA4528 because it is a zero-drift, rail-to-rail amplifier with a maximum offset voltage of 2.5 µV, no 1/f noise, and very low broadband noise. So, not only

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Analog Devices’ HMC1081/1105/1144 For this Arrow Product Insights, we focus on gallium arsenide monolithic microwave ICs, or GaAs MMICs, from Analog Devices. These are MMICs that can be used in applications for V-band frequencies, WiGig, aerospace and defense, and high speed test and measurement. The HMC1081 is an ideal mixer for military and test and measurement applications, offering a very wide IF of up to 26 GHz. A passive 50 to 75 GHz mixer based on GaAs schottky diode technology, the HMC1081 requires no DC bias, and operates at a nominal LO drive of 12 dBm. The HMC1081 is a doublebalanced mixer, eliminating the need to filter the input signals from the output for easier integration into the final product. All bond pads and the die backside use a titanium/gold metallization, with the die measuring 1.23 × 1.21 × 0.1 mm.

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When designs require a lower LO frequency, Analog Devices offers the HMC1105 passive frequency multiplier as an ideal companion. The HMC1105 provides frequency doubling of inputs from 20 to 40 GHz in a 1.79 × 1.19 × 0.1 mm die based on the same schottky diode technology as the HMC1081. The HMC1105 provides suppression for both fundamental and higher order harmonics and adds no measurable additive noise to the output. The die accepts an input drive power level of +15 dBm with conversion loss depending on the input frequency, but typical loss is 11 to 12 dB. The combination of HMC1081 mixer and HMC1105 multiplier offers a unique frequency conversion from 50-75 GHz wide frequency range, requires nominal LO drive and provides good performance across the frequency band.

The HMC1144 provides a gain of 19 dB across its entire 40 to 70 GHz frequency range, offering performance unmatched by any other medium power amplifier available today. Inputs and outputs are internally matched to 50 Ω to facilitate integration of the die into multichip modules, with the die measuring 2.3 × 1.8 × 0.102 mm and operating from a 4 V, 320 mA supply. The HMC1144 utilizes two cascaded, four stage amplifiers in quadrature between two 90° hybrids, providing at least 15 dB return loss on inputs and outputs and a saturated power of 22 dBm.

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Vishay Dale

Display Products

Color TFT Displays

For this Arrow Product Insights, we present a wide array of display products from Vishay Dale. Display products provide the human-to-machine interface; simple display models convey information visually in the form of characters and/or graphics, while more complex models are capable of both displaying information and receiving human input by use of touch panels. Vishay Dale can provide standard, modified, or custom display options.

Monochrome LCD Displays

Graphic LCD Displays

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Vishay Dale’s monochrome LCDs, or Liquid Crystal Displays, are available in both character and graphic modules. For the character modules the standard LCD sizes range from 8x2 to 40x4, and many backlight and LCD combinations are available for specific combinations. The LCD graphics modules have standard sizes ranging from 122x32 to 320x240 which is the QVGA, or Quarter Video Graphics Array. Supplementing the standard sizes, these modules have customer design capabilities for adding headers, backlight cables, heaters, 4-wire resistive touch panels, and both custom module and glass designs. Vishay Dale also offers displays using the technology of VATN, or Vertically Aligned Twisted Nematic. VATN is a newer type of LCD technology that has cuttingedge features which offers industrial LCD displays a wider viewing angle. Color TFT, or thin-film-transistor, is another display technology from Vishay. Standard sizes are available with formats of 3.5”, 4.3”, 5.7”, 7.0”, 8.0”, 10.2” and 12.1” diagonal with other sizes in development. Most of the TFT models are offered with or without the SSD1963 controller along with options for resistive or capacitive touch panels and sunlight readable backlights. Vishay Dale’s OLEDs, Organic Light Emitting Diodes, make an excellent choice for integration into new products given their key advantages, including:

• a viewing angle of 160 degrees in all directions • 1/10th the power consumption of LCD displays • a high contrast ration of a minimum of 2000:1 • a faster response time of only 10 micro-seconds Additionally, Vishay Dale also offers custom capabilities for all development levels of monochrome LCD’s and OLED products. Such custom capabilities include a wide temperature range, display mounting and termination, viewing direction, backlighting, and custom characters and icons. Vishay Dale’s engineering resources are available for assistance with your custom designs and ideas.

OLED Displays

Custom Displays

VATN Displays

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• extra thin with no backlight required • a wide temperature range of -40C to 80C • high brightness up to 200 nits

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Linear Technology’s LTC2380-24 Welcome to Inside the Lab with Arrow Electronics, the web series dedicated to exploring the latest in technology and electronics. Today we’ll show you Linear Technology’s LTC2380-24, a low power, 24-bit, 2 MSPS SAR ADC with an integrated filter that promises very high dynamic range with no missing codes, no latency and low distortion. We’ll walk you through our setup and highlight some of the things we did to maximize the performance of the demo.

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THE SIMPLICITY OF USE COMBINED WITH ITS HIGH PERFORMANCE MAKES THE LTC2380-24 IDEAL FOR USE IN THE MOST DEMANDING DESIGNS. We use a quality differential signal source and adjustable common mode voltage because the LTC2380-24 is such a highly precise SAR ADC and we need a quality signal source to show its AC performance. For this video, LTC’s DC1858A low distortion sine wave generator is used with the LT6363 amplifier to produce both the differential output and common mode level shifting necessary to drive the input of the LTC2380-24. The DC1216A is a low cost, low noise 100 MHz clock

that we use as a quality clock source. Pads are available on the DC2289A for a first-order low-pass filter, but we didn’t use them. The board also includes buffers for the ADC input with the LTC6203, which band limits the input frequencies at the ADC input to approximately 940kHz. Finally, jumpers are available to switch between AC and DC coupling, with circuitry to set the input common mode level for AC coupled measurements.

PScope, available for download at www.linear.com/solutions/PScope, shows all of the parameters and harmonics of how the ADC works and all of the benefits you will gain from working with this high quality ADC. For DC measurements, the LTC DC590B communicates with LTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s QuikEval, which shows noise levels of the ADC. LTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Linduino DC2026C could be used in place of the QuikEval. The Linduino has an Arduino footprint and was created for developing and distributing firmware libraries and code for SPI and I2C compatible integrated circuits. The LTC2380-24 comes in a 16-lead 4mm x 3mm MSOP package and is drop-in pin compatible to the LTC2378

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family of 16-, 18-, and 20- bit 1 MSPS no latency SAR ADCs, allowing designs that use these ADCs to easily upgrade to the 24-bit LTC2380. The simplicity of use combined with its high performance makes the LTC2380-24 ideal for use in the most demanding designs. For more information, visit Arrow.com.

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16-bit MCU

LAPIS 16-bit MCUs are perfect for applications that require better performance than 8-bit MUCs offer and greater power efficiency than 32-bit MCUs provide.

LAPIS Semiconductor, a part of ROHM Semiconductor group and a leader in low-power MCUs, has released a 16-bit microcontroller starter kit. These MCUs lever LAPISâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; U16 CPU to blend low-power with the performance necessary for IoT devices, LED lighting, motor control, and industrial equipment. Three new families, the ML620500, ML620130, and ML620150, are available with different peripheral sets and features to address the needs of different application, however all are based on a high-performance, low-power 16-bit RISC CPU.

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This demo uses the starter kit based on the ML620Q504. This MCU runs at an ultra-low power consumption, 0.45 ÂľA in HALT mode and 250 ÂľA/MHz in operation. A nanoEASE is used as a programmer debugger. GitHub provides the most up-to-date information and documentation on the MCU. The LAPIS support site, which includes documentation on schematic, BOMs, user manuals, and nanoEASE drivers. Note that registration on the LAPIS support site must be completed before the support site is available.

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Once the download is performed from the support site, the building and debugging process can begin. Downloaded codes can be modified. To see this demonstration in action, view the video here. For any issues or questions, users can reach out to engineering@ rohmsemiconductor.com.

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LAPIS 16-bit MCUs are perfect for applications that require better performance than 8-bit MUCs offer and greater power efficiency than 32-bit MCUs provide. Applications such as sensordriven IoT devises will benefit, providing the user with the experience and battery life they expect. For more information, visit lapis-semi.com. View entire video

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