Fujipoly announces the availability of its highest performance thermal interface silicone putty. SARCON(r) XR-Um-Al is a uniquely formulated gap filler compound that has a putty-like consistency. This physical property contributes to the material’s extremely low contact and thermal resistance while maintaining a thermal conductivity of 17 watt/m-k.

SARCON XR-Um-Al is manufactured with a thin aluminum carrier film for customer-friendly application. The low adhesion aluminum barrier enables users to remove the carrier film after installation with no pull-out effect. This thermal interface material is available in sheets up to 50mm x 50mm with thicknesses ranging from 0.2mm to 0.5mm. SARCON XR-Um-Al complies with UL 94 V-0 flame retardancy specifications and is most commonly used to transfer heat from between CPUs and semiconductors to close proximity heat sinks.

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today unveiled several new 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) that sets the industry benchmark for low-power microcontrollers and peripheral integration. These new MCUs feature active currents of less than 50 µA/MHz and sleep currents down to 20 nA. The PIC12F182X MCUs extend Microchip’s Enhanced Mid-range 8-bit core product line into the 8-pin segment, and include mTouch™ capacitive touch-sensing, and communications peripherals. The PIC16F19XX MCUs feature a broad range of peripherals, such as mTouch capacitive touch-sensing module, LCD drive, multiple communications and more Pulse width Modulator (PWM) peripherals.

All of these general-purpose MCUs are well suited for applications in the appliance; consumer; industrial and automotive markets, among others. A video demonstrating the PIC16LF1823 MCU’s low active current is available through editorial contact or YouTube (feel free to embed on your Web site): http://www.microchip.com/get/MSD1. Read the rest of this entry »

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leading supplier of microcontrollers, has extended its STM32 microcontroller family with extra features and up to 1-Mbyte of on-chip Flash. The additional Flash at least doubles the memory available to STM32 developers, thereby supporting future scalability, increasing system performance, and providing advanced application features, such as next-generation graphical user interfaces for consumer and industrial products.

With the introduction of these STM32 XL-density devices, ST now has 99 STM32 variants; the industry’s largest family of microcontrollers using the advanced ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit processor core, offering a range of memory densities, operating speeds, and integrated features to solve diverse application demands. All STM32 devices are pin and software compatible, and share from a common pool of peripherals. This commonality allows developers to upgrade products with minimal redesign, and to re-use their intellectual property, tools and hardware in multiple projects to reduce costs and speed-up time to market.

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Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, today introduced the Model 4225-PMU Ultra-Fast I-V Module, the latest addition to the growing range of instrumentation options for the Model 4200-SCS Semiconductor Characterization System. It integrates ultra-fast voltage waveform generation and current/voltage measurement capabilities into the Model 4200-SCS’s already powerful test environment to deliver the industry’s broadest dynamic range of voltage, current, and rise/fall/pulse times, expanding the system’s materials, device, and process characterization potential dramatically. Just as important, the Model 4225-PMU makes ultra-fast I-V sourcing and measurement as easy as making DC measurements. Its wide programmable sourcing and measurement ranges, pulse widths, and rise times make it well-suited for applications that demand both ultra-fast voltage outputs and synchronized measurement - from nanometer CMOS to flash memory. For more information, visit http://keithley.acrobat.com/p77402742/.

Unlike previous solutions, which required up to three different test stands to characterize a device, material, or process thoroughly, the Model 4225-PMU’s broad dynamic range allows characterizing the full range of materials, devices, and processes with a single set of instrumentation. Now, labs can configure one flexible system to handle all three measurement types: precision DC I-V (Model 4200-SMU), AC impedance (Model 4210-CVU C-V Instrument), and ultra-fast I-V or transient I-V (Model 4225-PMU).

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Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces another industry-best reported efficacy record of 208 lumens per watt for a white power LED. This R&D result passes a significant milestone within the solid-state lighting industry as well as demonstrates Cree’s relentless drive to increase the performance of its LEDs. Cree’s tests confirmed that the LED produced 208 lumens of light output and achieved 208 lumens per watt efficacy at a correlated color temperature of 4579 K. The tests were conducted under standard LED test conditions at a drive current of 350 mA at room temperature. “We have now broken the elusive 200-lumen-per-watt efficacy barrier for a single white power LED,” said John Edmond, Cree co-founder and director of advanced optoelectronics. “This is a result of improvements in blue optical output power, lower operating voltage and higher conversion efficiency. We continue to push the envelope in white LED technology to enable the highest efficiency white lighting products in the marketplace.” While this level of performance is not yet available in Cree’s production LEDs, Cree continues to lead the industry with the broadest family of high-performance LEDs. Read the rest of this entry »

SMART’s Xceed iSATA embedded SSD is an industrial-grade 3Gbps Serial-ATA (SATA -II), embedded, SLC SSD. Targeting the needs of OEM customers in the server, storage accelerators, networking, and data communications markets requiring reliable internal storage, the reduced footprint of the Xceed iSATA (55.88 x 30.48mm x 13.75mm) is designed specifically for space-constrained embedded applications where traditional 1.8” and 2.5” HDDs and SSDs are too large.

Unlike traditional SSD’s, the Xceed iSATA requires no cables, drive mounting or other drive mounting equipment. SMART’s Xceed iSATA embedded SSD products offer leading edge read performance of up to 86MB/s (Maximum) and write performance up to 55MB/s (Maximum) and are available in various capacities, ranging from 2GB to 32GB. The Xceed iSATA provides support for lower density applications not readily available from HDD manufacturers.

Features

Whole Drive Static Wear Leveling
Advanced Error Detection/Correction circuitry for superior data reliability
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support
Supports 48bit LBA addressing with larger max transfer size
Improved shock and vibration resistance over rotating media
Indicator LED to indicate drive accesses
External LED Activity Signaling (through the SATA connector) (Pin 11)
Provides Health Status Monitor
Zero seek time
Noiseless operation

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