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Mouser has expanded MMIC range from Qorvo

Mon, May 04, 2020

Distributor, Mouser Electronics offers Qorvo’s line of gallium nitride (GaN) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) following the acquisition of Custom MMIC. The range is targeted at aerospace, defence, space and commercial applications.

Custom MMIC is now part of RF and mmWave manufacturer, Qorvo’s Infrastructure and Defence Products (IDP) group. The portfolio now covers the entire RF signal chain, for defence customers, including satellite communications, microwave test equipment, electronic warfare, and advanced phased array radar applications.

Mouser offers Qorvo’s Custom MMIC line of products, including multiple low noise amplifiers, for communications that demand a small form factor and low power consumption. For example, the CMD264P3 6.0 to 18GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) and evaluation board deliver greater than 26dB of gain with a corresponding output 1.0dB compression point of +12dBm. There is also the CMD270P3 4.0 to 8.0GHz LNA, which has a low noise figure of 1.7dB and delivers greater than 16dB of gain. An evaluation board is coming soon. Another LNA is the CMD307P3 (8.0 to 16GHz) with a low noise figure of 2.0dB. An accompanying evaluation board is also available. These LNAs are all 50 Ohm-matched designs, eliminating the need for both external DC blocks and RF port matching, says Mouser.

Other products are the CMD305P3 6.0 to 14GHz driver amplifier, a broadband MMIC offering low current consumption and +20.5 dBm saturated output power. Qorvo’s CMD284P4 DC–22 GHz distributed amplifier is a GaAs MMIC that delivers wideband performance in a leadless 4.0 x 4.0mm package. Mouser also stocks the CMD305P3 evaluation board and CMD284P4 evaluation board.

Mouser claims to stock the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is continually updated and offers advanced search methods to help customers quickly locate inventory. Mouser.com also houses data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

Mouser offers 27 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 630.000 customers in more than 223 countries/territories.

Qorvo provides RF products and technology, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing for wireless devices, wired and wireless networks and defence radar and communications.

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Digi-Key adds biometric systems with Fingerprint Cards signing

Fri, Apr 24, 2020

Digi-Key Electronics has signed a global distribution partnership with Fingerprint Cards to offer the Swedish company’s standalone, compact biometric fingerprint sensors.

Fingerprint Cards’ products are found in hundreds of millions of devices and applications, says the company, and are used billions of times every day, for identification and authentication of access or payment systems.

“We are excited about the new partnership with Fingerprint Cards,” said David Stein, vice president, global supplier management at Digi-Key. “Biometric authentication is growing as it continues to be implemented into new applications and devices. Digi-Key now offers customers an easy path to develop secure devices with integrated capacitive fingerprint sensor technology.”

Michel Roig, senior vice president, payments and access at Fingerprints. “Digi-Key will help us reach out and find new potential markets and application areas.”

Fingerprint Cards is a biometrics company, based in Sweden.

Digi-Key Electronics is headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA. It is an authorised global, full-service distributor of electronic components. It offers more than 10.2 million components, with over 2.2 million in stock and available for immediate shipment, from over 1,200 quality name-brand manufacturers.

Its Marketplace Product provides a singular shopping experience for all things related to technology innovation — IoT, industrial automation, test and measurement and more.

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Richardson RFPD offers NXP’s RF circuit library

Fri, Jan 31, 2020

A library of radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) designs for 5G communication infrastructure, smart industrial applications and other markets is now available from Richardson RFPD, an Arrow Electronics company.

The distributor has announced immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a NXP Semiconductors’ library.

Users can browse multiple design ideas at once in the RF circuits’ library, including discrete RF transistor evaluation boards for ISM, FM radio and 3T MRI, and RF PA IC evaluation boards for 5G/mMIMO and ISM.

Products are available today.

Richardson RFPD, an Arrow Electronics company, specialises in the RF, wireless, IoT and power technologies markets. It includes many of the industry’s top radio frequency and power component suppliers in its linecard. From designing components to engineering complete solutions, Richardson RFPD’s design centres and technical sales team provide comprehensive support from prototype to production.

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Time of flight sensors from Premier Farnell provide 3D information

Wed, Jul 17, 2019

Distributor, Premier Farnell is shipping a range of time of flight (ToF) sensors designed to meet the changing needs of design engineers and address demand for 3D information and extended range created by new use cases. ToF devices support applications such as gesture sensing, distance measurement, robotics, industrial automation and process control, enabling, for example, the monitoring of the position of an object in production as it is transported through a plant on a conveyor belt.

Devices available for next day delivery increase distance capabilities irrespective of colour and surface of the item tracked, maximise potential use within both indoor and outdoor environments and satisfy high-speed, small size and low power demands, driven by Industrial IoT application needs.

A new device is the ISL29501 ToF IC from Renesas. This is designed for detecting objects at distances up to two metres, providing a cost effective and efficient solution for distance measurement, says Premier Farnell. The ISL29501 provides object detection and distance measurement solution when combined with an external emitter (LED or laser) and photodiode. Its small size and low power consumption enable the IC to be used with connected devices in IoT applications, as well as for consumer mobile devices, home automation and the emerging commercial drone market.

There is also the VL53L1X ToF Nucleo pack from ST Microelectronics. The evaluation kit allows anyone to learn, evaluate and develop an application using the VL53L1X ToF, a device based on ST’s patented FlightSense technology. The VL53L1X is claimed to be the fastest miniature ToF sensor on the market with accuracy ranging up to four metres and fast-ranging frequency up to 50Hz. It allows absolute long-distance to be measured independently of target reflectance as instead of estimating the distance by measuring the amount of light reflected back from an object the VL53L1X precisely measures the time the light takes to travel to the nearest object and reflect back to the sensor.

Another tool is the AFBR-S50MV85G evaluation kit, from Broadcom. This comprises an NXP FRDM-KL46Z evaluation board and the AFBR-S50MV85G adapter board for connectivity between the sensor and a microcontroller board without the need for soldering. This sensor is suitable for indoor and outdoor use and optimised for distances of up to 10 metres. It has been developed with a special focus on industrial sensing and gesture sensing applications that require high speed, small size and very low power consumption, such as human machine interfaces, robotics, and augmented reality.

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