Analogue and Discretes

Linear Technology has announced what it claims is the most accurate ADC, with INL errors of 2ppm maximum over temperature. “LTC2378-20 is the first 20bit SAR ADC on the market offering ±0.5ppm typical integral nonlinearity [INL] error with a guaranteed specification of 2ppm maximum over temperature, making it the most accurate ADC in the industry. With 104dB SNR it has ...

STMicroelectronics has launched the 2013 iNEMO Design Contest in Taiwan. It is the third time ST is running the competition for students and young engineers in Taiwan to design new applications built around ST’s iNEMO MEMS-based multi-sensor technology. This year’s contest encourages contestants to use sensing technologies to create new ways of interaction among technology, life and environment. “With over ...

Next generation smartphones are likely to have 40 radios in each handset to support the plethora of mobile standards and the need for multiple radio front-end circuits will have an impact on others parts of the design. One example is the design of the digital pre-distortion receiver which is shared by multiple power amplifiers (PAs) in 4G LTE systems. There ...

“The server world is changing,” says Lou di Nardo, CEO of Exar, “the customers are defining the system they want. There’s a focus on low-power servers which is creating a discontinuity – programmability is one feature of that.”

Dubbed "RF to Bits", the supplier's radio platform is designed to allow the implementation of baseband processing using off-the-shelf DSPs

Roland Einspieler from magnetic position sensor supplier ams describes the measures it has taken to support the ISO26262 compliance programmes of automotive customers

MEMS based real-time clocks are rugged, accurate both over time and temperature, and significantly smaller than clocks built using standard cylindrical crystal technology

Glasgow fabless chip firm FTDI has revealed a video controller for LCDs that allows an 8bit microcontroller to produce an animated user interface. Called the FTDI800 and branded EVE (embedded...

Hittite Microwave has introduced a two channel 8bit 450Msample/s ADC with interleaving for 900Msample/s conversion, from either input. Called HMCAD1512, it is aimed at point-to-point...

Designated the LMX2581, the chip's phase detector frequency of 200MHz and PLL normalised phase noise of -229dBc/Hz provides a precision local oscillator for RF front ends