High-voltage Hot Swap Controllers with Integrated System Power Measurement Improve Reliability, Enable Lower Power Consumption in Telecom Infrastructure Systems - National Semiconductor introduced two new high-voltage system power management and protection integrated circuits (ICs) with on-chip power management bus (PMBus) support. The 48V input voltage LM5066 and -48V input voltage LM5064 integrate high-performance system protection and managem...

What: PCI-SIG Developers Conference Where: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. When: June 22-23, 2011

National Semiconductor has introduced the industry’s first 100V half-bridge gate driver optimized for use with enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride (GaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) in high-voltage power converters. National’s new LM5113 is a highly-integrated, high-side and low-side GaN FET driver that reduces component count by 75 percent and shrinks printed circuit board (PCB) area by up to 85 percent compared to discrete driver de...

Compact LM3435 with I2C Control Interface Drives LEDs Sequentially

Q4 sales of $374.1 million increased 9% from Q3 of fiscal 2011 and decreased 6% from Q4 of fiscal 2010 Gross margin of 66.5% was flat with Q3 and down from 68.8% in Q4 of fiscal 2010 GAAP earnings per share of 26 cents was up from 24 cents in Q3 and down from 33 cents in last year's Q4 Q4 results include about $14 million of merger-related expenses and an increase in diluted share count of 9 million shares

National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the industry’s first 2A red, green and blue (RGB) LED driver for portable projectors that drives three common anode RGB high-brightness LEDs sequentially with a single inductor. The highly-integrated LM3435 includes an I2C control interface for LED current control.

National Semiconductor introduced the industry’s first 2A red, green and blue (RGB) LED driver for portable projectors that drives three common anode RGB high-brightness LEDs sequentially with a single inductor. The highly-integrated LM3435 includes an I2C control interface for LED current control.

National Semiconductor introduced the SolarMagic arc detection reference design, comprised of analogue front end integrated circuits (ICs) and multi-band dynamic filtering firmware, the first commercially available chipset to detect hazardous DC arc faults in photovoltaic (PV) systems.

National Semiconductor a présenté aujourd'hui son design de référence SolarMagic pour la détection d'arc électrique, comprenant des circuits intégrés analogiques frontaux et un micrologiciel de filtrage dynamique multi-bandes. Ce chipset est le premier sur le marché, capable de détecter les arcs électriques dangereux dans les systèmes PV (photovoltaïques).

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE : NSM) a présenté aujourd'hui le LM3466, un driver de LED, linéaire et hautement intégré, simplifiant la conception de systèmes d'éclairage de grande puissance, destinés à l'éclairage de zones étendues, comme par exemple des réverbères. Le LM3466, associé à quelques composants passifs seulement, constitue un système complet capable de piloter chaque chaîne de LED à partir de n'importe quelle al...

Highly-integrated Driver Utilizes Unique Control Method to Equalize Current Between Multiple LED Strings

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE : NSM) a présenté aujourd'hui une nouvelle famille de répéteurs PCI Express® (PCIe) Gen-3) (8 Gbits/s), offrant des performances sans précédent au niveau conditionnement des signaux et basse consommation pour les serveurs de données et les systèmes de stockage.

National Semiconductor introduced a new family of PCI Express (PCIe) Gen-3 (8 Gbps) repeaters that offer unprecedented signal conditioning performance and low-power consumption for data center servers and storage systems.

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE : NSM) a présenté aujourd'hui 12 nouveaux modules de puissance SIMPLE SWITCHER®, les premiers capables de fournir jusqu'à 10A de courant de sortie, tout en étant conformes à la norme CISPR 22 (Classe B) en matière de parasites électromagnétiques (EMI), par rayonnement ou conduction, dans les applications industrielles et d'infrastructure de communications.

National Semiconductor introduced 12 new SIMPLE SWITCHER power modules, the first to drive up to 10A of output current and comply with the CISPR 22 (Class B) radiated and conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) standard in industrial and communications infrastructure applications.

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE : NSM) a présenté une nouvelle famille de circuits nettoyeurs de jitter d’horloge avec le plus faible bruit de phase de l'industrie et la plus faible valeur efficace de jitter du marché: 111 fs (femtoseconde) entre 12 kHz et 20 MHz, et un plancher de bruit large bande de -162 dBc/Hz pour une fréquence de sortie de 184 MHz.

National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a new family of clock jitter cleaners featuring the industry’s lowest phase noise and rms jitter performance: 111 femtosecond (fs) from 12 kHz to 20 MHz, and a wideband noise floor of -162 dBc/Hz at 184 MHz output frequency.

National Semiconductor Corp. a marqué aujourd'hui l’ouverture du séminaire de conception d’Avnet ‘Design Strategies for ARM Systems Design Summit’ à Chicago, États-Unis, avec la présentation de son nouveau WEBENCH Processor Power Architect, premier outil de conception du marché pour modéliser et optimiser les alimentations de processeur ARM® d’Atmel Corp. et de Freescale Semiconductor, en quelques minutes.

National Semiconductor Corp. today kicked off the Avnet Design Strategies for ARM Systems Design Summit in Santa Clara with the introduction of its new WEBENCH Processor Power Architect, the industry’s first online design tool to model and optimize power supplies for Atmel Corporation and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. ARM processors in minutes.

National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced ten new SolarMagic integrated circuits (ICs), the first in a series developed to reduce cost, improve reliability and simplify design of photovoltaic (PV) systems.