Wolfson Microelectronics has launched the WM8912, an ultra low power DAC. It has been designed to significantly extend playback time, reduce system cost and dramatically enhance audio performance in portable applications, including media players, headsets, multimedia phones and navigation devices. The WM8912 is the latest addition to Wolfson’s portfolio of ultra-low power audio solutions, and features their SmartDAC technology, a low power DAC capacitor switching architecture...
Reducing component count
Highly integrated three-phase motor control modules help reduce external component count. Sanken's highly integrated inverter power modules for motor control, available from Solid State Supplies, help reduce external components. The SCM1110MF inverter power module (IPM) consists of all of the necessary power elements needed to configure the main circuit of an inverter as a high-side drive power supply: six IGBTs, three pre-drive ICs and six flyback diodes, as well as a bootstrap circuit (three...
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