Monthly Archives: May 2011

With the Sitrans P500 unit, the Siemens Industry Automation Division presents a pressure transmitter to meet the highest requirements. Thanks to its response speed (T63) of 88ms and its accuracy of 0.03%, the Sitrans P500 is able to respond quickly … Continue reading →

With the SPVQ4H series, Alps Electric Europe offers waterproof detector switches for automotive, industrial and home applications. The actuator-type switches are remarkable for their high contact reliability at micro-current range and a long operating life of 300,000 switching cycles.

MSC Vertriebs GmbH has joined the new Embedded Building Blocks initiative launched by Intel®. The objective of this initiative is to offer system integrators and resellers the opportunity to easily enter the embedded computing market using existing standardized modules with … Continue reading →

As DATE’s new concept of choosing the vibrant European clusters Dresden (2010) and Grenoble (2011) as new venues was a huge success and resulted in major growth especially in the Exhibition, DATE has decided to come back to Dresden for … Continue reading →

Imec just announced that it entered into a three-year research collaboration with Altera Corporation to develop advanced CMOS scaling technologies. Altera joins a growing number of fabless semiconductor companies that are part of imec’s INSITE program, which provides member companies … Continue reading →

Vicor announces the newest additions to the IBC 050 and IBC 048 series of VI BRICK Intermediate Bus Converters. The new family already comprises over 12 models, in eighth- and quarter-brick formats, delivering from 300W up to as much as … Continue reading →

Power Integrations introduced two new members of its LinkZero-AX product family (LNK585 and LNK586), along with a PI University introductory video course that explains how designers can achieve 0.00 W of standby energy consumption. Launched in October 2010, the LinkZero-AX … Continue reading →

Advanced Power Electronics has announced that its new, competitively-priced AP98T07GP-HF-3 range of power MOSFETs is available on short leadtimes of just eight weeks compared to an industry norm of 12 to 14 weeks.

LEM has introduced the CTSR family of current transducers for use in a range of safety-critical applications including solar installations. Two transducers in the new series measure AC or DC leakage nominal currents, from values as small as 300 and … Continue reading →

AVX Corporation has extended its TRM and TRJ ‘Professional’ series of SMD tantalum capacitors. Devices are aimed at high-end commercial applications with an extended product life, such as automotive devices, avionics and industrial equipment.  Tantalum capacitors are the preferred solution … Continue reading →