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pulse 8 1200V, direct drive, silicon carbide JFETs 8 User-programmable current transducers 11 Silicon carbide FETs for 3-phase power supplies 11 Hall sensors find multiple uses in automotive systems www.edn-info.com For a free subscription, go to 10 Reference design wirelessly charges phones and power tools 10 32-bit microcontroller IP core for embedded designs 12 Tiny, low-power Wi-Fi module enables Internet of Things 12 4.5 to 14V dc/dc modules use LDMOS to raise voltage and efficiency 14 IBM demonstrates terahertz graphene photonics 14 Buck regulators target automotive designs and more EDN Europe is published monthly by Reed Business Information SAS, Forum 52 - 52, Rue Camille Desmoulins - 92448 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, France. Tel +33(0)1.46.29.46.29. Capital: 4.099.168 euros. RC Nanterre 339.611.956. CEO and Publishing director: Antoine Duarte. Circulation records/subscription/address changes: EDN Europe, Reed Business Information - REG - 52, Rue Camille Desmoulins - 92448, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, France. EDN Europe © 2012 by Reed Elsevier Inc. EDN is a registered trade mark of UBM Electronics, used under license. Web exclusive Toshiba Electronics Europe’s TMPM061 is its first Cortex-M0 device, and is also specifically designed for smart metering applications. The new microcontroller allows designers to replace the conventional two-chip analogue front end (AFE) and processor approach to smart meter design with a single IC. Toshiba uses the ARM core for its microcontroller’s main CPU, while deploying an on-board DSP power calculation engine to simplify smart meter power measurement. Intersil’s ISL70002SEHVF provides single event immunity, plus high and low dose rate immunity for aerospace and harsh environment applications: it is a radiation-hardened 12A point-of-load synchronous buck regulator with current sharing, featuring high integration, design flexibility and the highest output current of any comparable monolithic regulator. ➔ www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5580 Energy Micro has announced a strategic relationship with Spectrum Design Solutions to provide wireless design services. The two companies have planned to work closely together to solve customers’ wireless design challenges using the Energy Micro EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers. Spectrum offers a range of wireless design and integration services, from requirements specification through to product certification, for medical devices, network communications, avionics, smart energy and fleet management. ➔ www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5578 Texas Instruments has introduced a fully integrated, programmable solution for driving ultrasonic transducers in automotive park distance, blind-spot detection or similar object detection applications. The PGA450-Q1 provides for processing the echo signals and calculating the distance between the transducer and the object. The system-on-chip device includes all system blocks including regulators, dual NMOS low-side drivers, oscillator and a LIN 2.1 physical interface and protocol for interfacing. ➔ www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5579 ➔ www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5577 In next month’s EDN Europe In its August issue, EDN Europe will look at the topics of Communications; and design of Power Systems. In September, the focus topics will be Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and Automotive; further ahead, EDN Europe will be covering Test & Measurement, and Analogue Circuit design. Marketers, please forward appropriate special-issue content, and proposals for contributed articles, to the editor: gprophet@reedbusiness.fr 4 EDN EUROPE | JULY 2012 www.edn-europe.com http://www.microchip.com/get/EUEDNELIGHTNING http://www.edn-info.com http://www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5580 http://www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5578 http://www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5577 http://www.edn-europe.com/article.asp?articleid=5579 http://www.edn-europe.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of EDNE July 2012

Cover
Contents
International Rectifer
Microchip
FTDI
Masthead
Comment
International Rectifer
Pulse
Analog Devices
Digi-Key
Analog Devices
Test & Measurement
Agilent Technologies
Baker's Best
Messe München
Understand and characterize envelope-tracking power amplifiers
Digi-Key
Cover Story
Coilcraft
Digi-Key
Signal Integrity
Altera
USB 3.0 : Bringing SuperSpeed connectivity to mobile devices
Digi-Key
Developing high-frequency integrated circuits for test and measurement
Design idea
Product Roundup
Tales from the cube

EDNE July 2012