Semiconductors Reference Materials

Description: Qorvo has launched its first Constant-On-Time (COT) PMIC to feature 13 voltage rails and 25 amps of power across all outputs in a 3.8 x 3.8 mm package. The product's flexibility, small form factor and ...

Description: Discover the benefits of vehicle-to-grid technology for optimizing energy exchange in the smart grid. Learn about load balancing, peak load reduction, and spinning reserves. ...

Description: Keeping automobiles updated enough to avoid problems is becoming increasingly difficult as more complex electronics are added into vehicles, and as the lifetimes of those devices are extended to a ...

Description: Qorvo, a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world announced the interoperability of its DW3000 family of products with the Apple U1 chip used in iPhone and Apple Watch models ...

Description: RF solutions provider Qorvo has unveiled a family of high efficiency power amplifiers (PAs) designed for 5G small cell infrastructure applications. These new PAs are designed to help small cell base ...

Description: "A sharp transition toward 5G is ongoing in mobile devices." asserted Cédric Malaquin, technology and market analyst, RF Devices & Technology at Yole Développement. "The number of 5G ...

Description: Edge computing applications in Space, such as image/video processing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), telecommunications, rely on compute intensive devices like processors, FPGAs, and ACAPs to perform ...

Description: QORVO QPA0007 and QPA0004 electronically reconfigurable dual-band (S- and X-band) GaN power amplifiers (PAs) support a shift in radar architecture for defense, weather and commercial avionics. The ...

Description: Active filters are electronic circuits used to filter out specific frequency components from a signal. They are commonly used in audio equipment, telecommunications, and signal-processing ...

Description: Nowadays, homes, offices, and establishments are switching to grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) systems owing to the benefits they provide to the environment and long-term savings. Moreover, the government ...

Description: In spite of the advancements in the field of semiconductor technology, traditional power electronic systems comprising of Silicon are still being used today. Silicon-insulated bipolar transistors have ...

Description: Merely days after the news of onsemi completing the acquisition of GT Advanced Technologies, another supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors is up for grabs. Qorvo has snapped United ...

Description: Superior power management and high efficiency have become essential as electronics have become increasingly smaller and more streamlined. The reduction of power dissipation and consequent heat and ...

Description: Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has acquired silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor ...

Description: For demanding systems, the choice of hotswap switch has been limited to the traditional D2PAK or through-hole package options. With Nexperia's new Application Specific MOSFETs (ASFETs) for Hotswap and ...

Description: It's no secret that having up-to-date equipment can make a world of a difference in the productivity and efficiency of your facilities. If you've been using the same programmable logic controller ...

Description: Programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, are some of the best ways to automate your equipment systems. From industrial manufacturing to food processing, several industries make use of these devices, ...

Description: Qorvo has acquired Princeton, N.J.-based United Silicon Carbide (UnitedSiC), a manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. The acquisition of United Silicon Carbide expands Qorvo's ...

Description: Electric-Vehicles, 48V telecom/data centers, 240W USB power delivery, and so on... these electronics applications utilize higher voltage power supplies than the 3.3V, 5V and 12V rails that we are more ...

Description: Thanks to their savings in size, weight, and cost, as well as higher efficiency, GaN and SiC power devices are making big pushes beyond fast chargers and renewable energy into data centers, motor ...

Description: Failure rate calculations for the SCM5B modules are derived from the MIL-HDBK-217E specification. The stress-analysis method is used at ground benign environment, 35°C temperature, and quality ...

Description: Qorvo's QPA1724 is a packaged high power MMIC amplifier, Ku-/K-Band, fabricated on Qorvo's production 0.15 um GaN on SiC process (QGaN15).  QPA1724 is targeted for 17.3 to 21.2 GHz satcom band. It ...

Description: UnitedSiC (now Qorvo) has worked on a cascoded SiC FET architecture that shows several advantages in some key device parametrics. Silicon carbide power devices provide several advantages over their ...

Description: Rochester worked with Artesyn ® to replicate the LSI Hawk ASIC which is critical to supporting Artesyn's VME products. ...

Description: Intel ® 80C196KC 16-bit microcontroller Product Replication. ...

Description: A valued Rochester customer required an ongoing supply of the MC68040FE processor to produce medical ventilators to be used in the fight against COVID-19. ...

Description: Working together, Rochester and thyssenkrupp were able to replicate, test, and qualify this component within less than a year, from project start to mass production ramp-up. ...

Description: Waters Corporation: Legacy ADSP brought back to life ...

Description: Only the Rochester Electronics Semiconductor Lifecycle Solution can provide an absolute guarantee that a replacement semiconductor device will function exactly as the original. ...

Description: We shipped more than 1.7 billion LFPAK devices in 2021, including MOSFETs and bipolar power transistors in LFPAK56 and its later derivatives from small size of 3 mm x 3 mm LFPAK33 to 8 mm x 8 mm ...

Description: Isabellenhütte's IVT 3 Pro shunt-based sensing and control gives innovators important new capabilities for HFCVs and more ...

Description: Automatic baseline offset correction (ABOC) and forced compensation scheme (FCS). ...

Description: This document provides information on the environmental and mechanical implementation of Infineon's XENSIVTM PAS CO2 sensor. It also highlights recommended application scenarios for the sensor. ...

Description: Target application: demand control ventilation ...

Description: This application note presents a possible gas measurement setup to potential customers who would like to evaluate the performance of the XENSIV™ PAS CO2. ...

Description: This application note provides a detailed description of the register map of XENSIVTM PAS CO2 ...

Description: This application note describes different methods to achieve low power consumption with the XENSIVTM PAS CO2 for different applications like battery-driven applications ...

Description: lobal megatrends, such as digitalization, and decarbonization, call for wide bandgap (WBG) devices (SiC/GaN). Due to their unique technological characteristics, they enable the highest performance and ...

Description: With the rising number of mobile devices, notebooks and battery-powered equipment, the need for increased charging power and fast charging has emerged. ...

Description: CoolSiC™ products from Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) are adopted by Delta Electronics, a Taiwan-based global leading provider of power and energy management solutions, to ...

Description: Counterfeit products have a negative impact on brands: not only do they affect revenue, but they also damage brand image with poor user experiences. ...

Description: Both homeowners and professional consumers have been migrating from AC-powered (corded) tools to DC battery-powered (cordless) tools, and manufacturers are continuing to migrate from DC to brushless ...

Description: When compared to their integrated circuit counterparts, who are spoiled by the most comprehensive simulation models, board level designers working with discrete power MOSFETs must feel terribly ...

Description: The rise of cordless, battery powered tools and outdoor power equipment has been dramatic over the last few years. One of the key drivers in this move has been the availability of long-lasting, ...

Description: It is not unusual for a design already in production to end up back with the engineering development team. In this case, the product is a 3-kW power conversion unit with a standard boost PFC that ...

Description: As discussed in Qrr: overlooked and underappreciated in efficiency battle, Qrr can have a significant impact on efficiency and spiking. Yet typically you find Qrr (and Trr) listed at the bottom of the ...

Description: Ever since the first of the new generation of small battery-cell powered motors hit the market, we have seen a wave of new products and ideas. One company that is literally riding that wave is JayKay ...

Description: As billions of people around the world adopt more flexible lifestyles, stable connections to the cloud via Wi-Fi, 4G and 5G are vital. To manage this, the growth in hyperscale computing solutions and ...

Description: The NEC, National Electrical Code (Ref. 4) requires the installation of grounds for safety and does not allow load currents in ground lines. Unfortunately, unwanted ground currents (Ig) often exist ...

Description: You can be an innovator instead of trying to play catch-up when you know what AV technology is coming—and where it may show up. Here’s a short list of what we’re hearing about when ...

Description: An analysis is presented of the error introduced into estimates of avalanche photodiode (APD) lidar performance by assuming Gaussian distribution of the APD multiplication gain. The amplitude of ...

Description: Across all markets, from renewable energy and motor drives to electric vehicles, electronic devices are challenged to be smaller, more efficient, and less expensive. This increases the complexity of ...

Description: Modern integrated circuit (IC) operational amplifiers (Op Amps) have made quality instrumentation signal conditioning economically practical. Although accurate and stable Op Amp ICs are available for ...

Description: While silicon is an excellent general-purpose semiconductor, its limitations when dealing with high voltages, temperature, and switching frequencies are well-documented. As the market continues its ...

Description: Most tuning forks operate on a common crystal frequency to make them compatible electronic components. Surface mount crystals come as automotive grade crystals and thru hole crystals. Because of their ...

Description: In particular, low noise JFETs exhibit low input gate currents that are desirable when working with high impedance devices at the input or with high value feedback resistors (e.g., ≥1MΩ). ...

Description: Choosing Series or Parallel Resonant Crystals: Oscillator Design and Load Capacitance was written for engineers that are working on digital designs. This note and associated videos should reacquaint ...

Description: Linear Integrated Systems headphone amplifier evaluation board is a complete, low-power stereo audio amplifier for high-fidelity line-level output and headphone applications. It consists of Linear ...

Description: The dual monolithic P-channel LSJ689 is the complement to the N-channel LSK489. Both devices feature low offset, low noise and low capacitance. They enable the efficient implementation of fully ...

Description: The LSK389 is the industry’s lowest noise Dual N-Channel JFET, 100% tested, guaranteed to meet 1/f and broadband noise specifications, while eliminating burst (RTN or popcorn) noise entirely. ...

Description: For circuits designed to work with high impedance sources, ranging from electrometers to microphone preamplifiers, the use of a low-noise, high-impedance device between the input and the op amp is ...

Description: Noise is one of the more important aspects of circuit design. Lower noise in audio amplifier design means better quality audio. Low-noise in instrument design means more reliable and accurate ...

Description: Low-noise amplifiers for photodiode, piezoelectric, and other instrumentation applications typically call for circuit parameters such as extremely high input impedance, low 1/f noise, or subpicoamp ...

Description: Memory tokens are a versatile tool for securely transporting data, unlocking devices, enabling features, storing log data, and more ...

Description: As solar installations grow larger and more ambitious by the day, new trends in current sensing are emerging for this expanding energy market. ...

Description: Allegro MicroSystems is a world leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing high-performance integrated circuits (ICs), which incorporate high performance magnetic transducers. This whitepaper ...

Description: The first computer link using optical fibers was commissioned four decades ago to safeguard communications from electromagnetic interference at the Cheyenne Mountain strategic command center. Since ...

Description: Sensemore has released their most innovative product – Wireless Vibration Sensor for Quality Control, R&D & Maintenance. It monitors the health of your equipment without interruptions ...

Description: Frequency control is the process of maintaining the stability of clocking and timing in digital devices. All digital circuits today require clocks to ensure that processes happen at very specific ...

Description: Automotive technology has made significant advances since the 1970s in terms of safety, reliability, performance, and fuel efficiency. Today, automobiles require more than 60 processors and electronic ...

Description: The ECS Inc. International MultiVolt™ quartz-based oscillators utilize a cutting-edge small form factor high-performance ASIC. The oscillator circuit stage uses a low-current linear voltage ...

Description: A VCXO is a crystal oscillator whose output frequency varies based on an applied control voltage. The variation of a VCXO's output frequency is specified in parts per million (ppm) and is called ...

Description: Since the mid-nineteen seventies the “enhancement-mode” MOSFET has been the subject of almost continuous global research, development, and refinement by both the semiconductor industry and ...

Description: For maximum 50/60 cycle line power noise rejection, Integration time tINT must be picked as a multiple of the period of line power frequency. For example, tINT times of 16.667 msec, 33.333 msec, ...

Description: While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory and established legitimacy over the last few years, the electronic circuitry used in energy harvesting systems continues to ...

Description: While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory to the marketplace over the last few years, many popular energy sources capable of generating waste energy have yet to emerge as ...

Description: The paradigm that EPAD MOSFET arrays introduce is that gate thresholds can now be precisely controlled so that analog designers are now able to take advantage of the absolute value of the gate ...

Description: Voltage clamps for protecting low-voltage DC circuits require a new approach to circuit design. Many clamps commonly used were built for systems of 5-Volts or higher but lower voltage systems require ...

Description: Current leakages are ever present in electronic systems, and many forms of leakage are considered by engineers to be unusable. This thinking is starting to change as new frontiers in ultra-low power ...

Description: Novel Circuit Design Offers Insight on Over-Voltage Problem that Jeopardizes Cell Life and Provides Solution on How to Implement Automatic Leakage Current Equalization ...

Description: These devices are positioned to balance the voltage for supercapacitors used in a series to prevent each cell from overvoltage while offering a significant cost saving when compared to traditional ...

Description: It can be tough to harvest energy from innovative IoT devices such as thermoelectric generators built into clothing. A new kind of MOSFET is designed to work with the super-low voltages involved. ...

Description: Energy Harvesting taps ambient waste energy through increasingly efficient micro-energy power generators using piezoelectric elements. As circuits such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that operates ...

Description: Recently revealed independent testing data shows that SAB MOSFET arrays designed into supercapacitor applications of two or more cells can reduce leakage current. By reducing leakage current, the ...

Description: A MOSFET can have low current and low voltage and still effective balance a wide range of supercapacitors with values beyond 1000F because the supercapacitor current does not flow through the MOSFET. ...

Description: By reducing leakage current, SAB MOSFET device balance individual cell voltage with current balancing and cut power dissipation compared to op amp-based voltage balancing ...

Description: The use of supercapacitor series stacks are growing for many systems used in backup power storage or battery life extension. One of the most critical circuit design goals for such systems is ...

Description: Systems and circuits that are susceptible to damage in over-voltage conditions benefit from voltage clamps to ensure that voltages remain below a critical limit. But because this is a protection ...

Description: For decades, analog voltage comparators have found a wide range of applications in mixed signal sensor circuits, those used to compare physical measurements that could be translated into corresponding ...

Description: Energy Harvesting (EH) is the process of electronically capturing and accumulating energy from a variety of energy sources deemed wasted or otherwise said to be unusable for any practical purpose. ...

Description: This introduction to EPAD MOSFET describes a broad selection of devices with precisely set gate threshold voltage values, including zero threshold mode, enhancement mode and depletion mode. ...

Description: Supercapacitors are a great alternative to batteries in applications needing many rapid charge/discharge cycles and are popular in applications such as short-term energy storage, regenerative ...

Description: ALD's Electrically Programmable Analog Device (EPAD) technology provides a family of matched transistors with a range of precision threshold values. All members of this family are designed and ...

Description: As circuit supply voltages decrease and green energy trends grow in popularity, designers should re-examine some of the circuits that continually consume power in an effort to reduce overall system ...

Description: The average supercapacitor has a maximum charging voltage of between 2.5 and 2.7 V. For many applications a voltage this low isn't particularly useful, so the common practice is to place multiple ...

Description: Crystal Oscillators are key components used in many electronic circuits, such as in radio frequency applications and digital and microprocessor-based devices. In order to save power, an ultra ...

Description: ALD110900, ALD110804 and ALD114904 devices were utilized as inverters and buffers to create a low power oscillator circuit with various configurations. This article covers three basic oscillator ...

Description: Voltage clamps for protecting low-voltage dc circuits require a new approach to circuit design. Many commonly used voltage clamps were built for systems of 5 V or higher, but lower-voltage systems ...

Description: IoT asset trackers have become an indispensable part for many industries. However, tracking assets can become costly if a tracker runs out of battery and stops relaying data. Another challenge is ...

Description: With its new PMIC, e-peas hopes to enable more performant energy harvesting for IoT devices. But to do so, what are the challenges that come with IoT energy harvesting? ...