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Electronica: Video Interview – Renesas on GreenPAK programmable mixed-signal matrix

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At Electronica 2022 we caught up with Nathan John, Senior Director of Marketing at Renesas Technology, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Nathan presents the GreenPAK platform for integration and flexibility. GreenPAK is a broad family of mixed-signal parts enabling designers to integrate multiple discrete components into a single chip reducing current consumption, BOM, cost, and PCB ...

Electronica: Video Interview – Arrow on shaping the technology future with engineering talent

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At Electronica 2022 we caught up with Jamie Davey, Associate Vice President Design Services EMEA at Arrow Electronics, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Highlighting exciting customers’ products in four key areas – Electrification of Everything, Smart Everything, Energy Management and Autonomous machines – at the company’s Technology Solutions Zone, Arrow is showcasing how it helps its ...

Electronica: Video Interview – SIGLENT on RF test, K Band, General purpose T&M

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At Electronica 2022, we caught up with Jason Chonko, Marketing and Applications Specialist at SIGLENT Technologies, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He talks about RF test and measurement and LIDAR and RADAR, new applications, K Band RF signal sources and spectrum analysers, enabling more than one engineer to have the product at their desk, and how ...

Electronica: TI plans distribution centre in Frankfurt

TI planned Europe distribution centre

Texas Instruments announced plans to open a product distribution centre in Frankfurt, at Electronica. To be open by the end of 2024, it is being built to provide same-day delivery in central Germany and next-day delivery to most European-based for industrial and automotive customers. “We are excited to expand our European presence in Frankfurt, as it offers a centralised location with ...

Electronica: EPC launches Gen6 GaN power transistors

EPC Gen6 GaN eval board

GaN semiconductor maker EPC has announced an 80V 4mΩ power transistor at Electronica in Munich, with a 1.5 x 2.5mm footprint and “double the power density compared to EPC’s prior-generation products”, said the company. “This is just the first product of a new generation of discrete transistors and integrated circuits for EPC,” said company CEO and co-founder Alex Lidow. “With ...

Electronica: OKdo stocks first 8 core Rock 5B single-board computers

OKdo Rock 5B single-board computer

After revealing it would make and stock Rock single-board computers earlier this year, component distributor OKdo announced availability of the Rock 5B today at Electronica. This is an octo-core computer that delivers “the kind of desktop PC level performance required for compute intense activities such as AI or gaming, as well as object recognition, predictive maintenance or motion detection and ...

Electronica: Eval kit estimates remaining charge in novel Li-ion cells

NGK Onsemi remaining enercera capacity eval board

NGK Insulators has revealed a fuel-gauging evaluation kit for its novel Enercera lithium ion cells, some of which are amongst the few Li-ion cells to be chargeable below 0°C, and some of which can be float-charged. “As part of development support,” said the company, “NGK will provide all customers that use EnerCera with reference designs and evaluation boards free-of-charge starting ...

Electronica: R&S RF power sensors reach 90GHz

RnS power sensor 90GHz

Rohde & Schwarz has announced a flurry of RF power sensors at Electronica, including a 90GHz diode power sensor. This is “higher than any other diode sensor currently available”, said R&S. “The diode technology enables fast and accurate power measurements with high sensitivity from a compact portable instrument. High speed power measurements are now possible for all frequencies above 67GHz ...

Electronica: Top-cooled mosfets for automotive reach 1mΩ

Onsemi TCPAK57 TCPAK10

At Electronica today, Onsemi announced a series of silicon mosfets with top-side cooling for automotive motor control and dc-dc conversion. They come in a 5.1 x 7.5mm TCPAK57 package (aka ‘TCPAK10’, recommended footprint 5.2 x 8.7mm)  with a 16.5mm2 thermal pad on the top side. “This allows heat to be dissipated directly into a heatsink rather than via a typical ...