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Hendon Semiconductors - Microelectronics Design

"Products include integrated circuits (silicon chips) in Bipolar, Bi-CMOS and CMOS technologies, thick film hybrids (ceramic substrate) and surface mounted printed circuit board assemblies and modules."

History -

"The Hendon business site in Adelaide, South Australia has been a long established integrated circuit design and wafer fabrication facility in Australia, from its Philips semiconductor background up to 1997..."

OM5448 low voltage LED driver and voltage boost circuit - Hendon

Some Features -

• Low voltage operation down to 1V
• Adjustable power output with current setting resistor
• Up to 500mA peak LED drive current
• High efficiency

AKM Semiconductor - Mixed-signal IC

"AKM - Asahi Kasei Microdevices designs and manufactures CMOS mixed signal integrated circuits for applications including audio, multimedia, data storage, and telecommunications."

Other Products - Touchscreen Controllers, Clock Generators.

Semiconductor magnetoresistive element (SMRE)

"Since a Sn doped single crystal film InSb is used as a material for the sensing element, the element has excellent magnetoresistive temperature characteristics and very small neutral voltage temperature drift. This element is mainly used for detection of gear rotation."

Hall Effect Semiconductors - Detects a magnetic field and output analog/digital(IC) signal proportional to the intensity of the magnetic field. used for non-contact type switches, rotation detection, and position detection.

"..Industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal design,.. "

Silicon Laboratories - High Performance Mixed-signal

Products Include -

8-bit microcontrollers, Embedded modems, Subscriber line interface circuits, silicon direct access arrangements (DAAs) and clocks and oscillators.

• Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Infrared Sensors
• OTP-EPROM
• High-Side DC Current Sensor

Silicon Laboratories' Knowledge Base

The Embedded Ethernet Evaluation Kit demonstrates the simplicity of adding embedded Ethernet connectivity to a product with the CP220x.

Embedded Ethernet Evaluation Kit

RF Micro Devices - RFMD Semiconductors

Manufacturer of RF integrated circuits. Product line includes quadrature modulators, quadrature demodulators, LNA/mixers, IF amplifiers, attenuators, etc.

Products for

• Amplifiers (Broadband, General Purpose)
• Low Noise Amplifiers and Discretes
• High Power Amplifiers and Discretes
• Integrated PLL/Mixers
• Signal Sources (VCOs and PLLs)

TriQuint Semiconductor - RF Semiconductors

Manufacturer of advanced high-performance RF solutions with Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Gallium Nitride (GaN), Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) and Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) technologies.

History of TriQuint -

"1985 - A group of talented engineers found TriQuint as a spin off of Tektronix to research and develop the use of gallium arsenide (GaAs) for high performance wireless applications."

2008 - Acquire WJ Communications in Silicon Valley, California to strengthen Networks product line in base stations. WJ Communications was founded in 1957 as Watkins-Johnson."

TriQuint Semiconductor - Application Notes

NEC Electronics - Semiconductors

Manufactures semiconductors used in sectors like automotive and industrial, and consumer electronics.

• ASICs like Analog ASIC and ARM-based SoC
• ASSPs like CCD Linear Image Sensor and LED Driver IC
• Linear ICs like Operational Amplifier and Power Supply IC
• Transistors, Diodes and Thyristors (Discrete)

LED Driver IC

µPD168804 is a power supply control IC with four constant-current controller/driver channels. A high current drive of up to 1,500 mA per channel is supported by providing an external power MOSFET.

Allegro MicroSystems - Power ICs and Hall-effect sensors

Manufacturer of Hall-Effect Sensor ICs, Power ICs, Power Management Chips. These are used in Home Appliances, Automotive, LED Lighting and Office Automation.

Sanken Products include Regulator ICs, Switching Regulators, Off-Line Flyback Regulators, Stepper Motor Unipolar Drivers, Inverter Power Modules.

• Ultracompact 6-Channel Backlight and Flash/Torch Driver
• Hall-Effect Sensor Technical Publications and Application Notes

Advanced Linear Devices ALD - Precision CMOS IC

Analog semiconductors for OEM manufacturers of industrial controls, instrumentation, computers, medical devices, automotive, and telecommunications products.

Some Products Like -

• Ultra-low Input Signal Power Rail-to-Rail CMOS OpAmps
• Ultra-low Charge Injection Low Voltage Analog Switches
• High resolution Dual Slope Integrating Analog Processors
• ±5 1/2 Digit DVM Digital Voltmeter Boards

Energy Harvesting Modules

"These modules capture residual energy as a by-product of a natural environmental phenomenon or industrial process, storing and and conditioning the energy for use at a later time."

RICOH - IC - Electronic Devices

Power Management ICs, Real-time clock ICs, PC Interface and Communication LSI / Image Processing LSI.

Power Management ICs

DC/DC Converters, Battery Management, Watchdog Timer(W.D.T.) and Voltage Regulators.

Micron - Semiconductor Solutions - Memory

"Micron's DRAM and Flash components are used in today's most advanced computing, networking, and communications products..."