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XP Power has made a number of additions to its LDU series of PCB mount DC input constant current LED drivers. Comprising four models offering power outputs of 5, 7, 14 and 20 Watts, these highly efficient LED drivers have a typical efficiency of 93% for the 5 – 14 Watt models and 95% for the 20 Watt devices.

Semikron has introduced an inverter platform that offers system integrators an easy-to-use and versatile inverter to meet the stringent demands of the renewable energy market. The Semistack assembly is a high power, three-phase inverter system that uses Semikron’s SKiiP intelligent power module (IPM) with integrated heat sink, IGBT, driver with protective sensors and functions, all optimised for renewable energy applications.

Luso Electronics Distribution has announced its has become the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for the Veetronix range of switches and keycaps. Based in Nebraska, Veetronix is a manufacturer of highly reliable keyboard and panel-mount switches for various markets, including video and audio mixing-desk equipment and in numerous military and government applications.

Renesas Electronics has announced the development of an ultra-compact reference board that can be used as an IP network–compatible High Definition set-top box (STB) solution. The new reference board adds cloud features to non connected TVs, enabling multi-room content distribution (home content distribution), both of which are expected to achieve wide adoption in the near future.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a high-performance, analogue class-D audio amplifier with best-in-class power density that will allow equipment manufacturers to combine superior audio quality with a small form factor in next-generation home and professional sound systems and active-speaker applications.

UNIPOWER LLC has unveiled five new fault tolerant power systems designed specifically to support high-end servers, communications equipment and other applications that need a redundant power solution.

Microchip is expanding its eXtreme Low Power (XLP) microcontrollers (MCUs) with the introduction of the PIC24F ‘GA3’ family, which features a low active current for 16-bit Flash MCUs, as well as several flexible new low-power sleep modes. The devices feature 150 microamperes/MHz active current, as well as six DMA channels, which allow a routine to be executed with less power consumption and increased throughput.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the development of BENAND, a versatile, multi-application single level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory with an embedded error correction code (ECC). BENAND’s diverse applications include LCD TVs and digital cameras along with robots and other industrial applications.

Maxim Integrated Products has announced the TINI family of highly integrated SoCs and codecs for consumer applications. Offering greater functional integration, TINI products have been designed to enable system designers to free board space for new differentiating features in smartphones, tablet PCs, smart TVs, and home-monitoring cameras.

Plextek has developed new codecs to address the issue of poor image quality that has become synonymous with many wireless CCTV surveillance systems. Current video surveillance techniques work well over wired networks, but wireless links add noise and latency that standard techniques such as H.264 and JPEG2000 fail to cope with. The result - intermittent and blurred images which make it difficult to identify perpetrators. Working closely with customers, Plextek have developed a new simplified codec that is based on JPEG2000 and includes enhanced compression techniques to improve wireless video performance.