Analogue / Linear / Mixed Signal ICs

Silicon Radar of Frankfurt introduces development kits for its GHz CMOS radar MMICs, which are built using SiGe or SiGe:C from IHP.

Today Intersil claims to have the industry’s lowest power 14-channel programmable gamma buffer for automotive TFT-LCD displays.

US-based developer of gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), Custom MMIC is represented in the UK by Aspen Electronics, and its microwave amplifiers, switches and mixers are on show this week at European Microwave Week (EuMW) in London. These include a SP3T switch, the CMD234C4, which provides an isolation of 40dB at 10GHz and insertion loss of 2dB. ...

Linear Tech has introduced a power and energy monitor for 0V to 15V DC supply rails with an integrated sense resistor. Most power and energy monitoring ICs use an external sense resistor to measure current. However, choosing a sense resistor is not an easy task, especially when dealing with high currents, where available sense resistors can dissipate too much power, ...

Avago's latest optically isolated sigma-delta modulator device, the ACPL-C799, is being sold through Broadcom's sales channels. This follows Avago's acquisition of Broadcom last year.

Vishay has up-graded its traditional analogue switch and analogue multiplexer lines using a new silicon process.

Canadian company Allo has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi. It features: 2x50W stereo amplifier, DAC+headphone amplifier, re-clocker and the firm's own Sparky single-board computer.

The EV12AD550 1.5GSample/s analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) from e2v is designed for a high dynamic range at 4.5GHz and S-band direct digitisation in space systems. It removes the need for down conversion stages reducing size and power consumption of the overall system. The design of what the company calls synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation systems, for example, will be able ...

A range of low jitter clock oscillators from IQD cover a frequency range from 1MHz up to 1.5GHz and can be used for high speed serial interfaces such as Ethernet and PCI Express. The devices, IQXO-940, IQXO-942 and IQXO-944, have a specified phase jitter performance down to between 0.9ps and 0.05ps rms max depending upon the selected frequency and specification. The ...

Texas instruments is claiming the fastest 14bit ADC yet with one that works at 3Gsample/s, delivering “an instantaneous 1.5GHz-per-channel bandwidth, enabling engineers to implement wideband in-phase and quadrature-component receivers beyond 2.5 GHz”, said the firm. The dual-channel ADC32RF45 can be used for direct RF signal conversion up to 4GHz,” said TI. “The first in a new data converter family, it eliminates up ...