Logic buffers, drivers, receivers and transceivers allow isolated access to logic signals from one circuit for use in another circuit. Buffers pass their input signal, either unchanged or inverted, to their output and may be used to clean up a weak signal or drive a load. In a boolean logic simulator, a buffer is mainly used to increase propagation delay. Logic receivers and transceivers allow isolated communication between data buses.
Products in the modular embedded processor family integrate a microcontroller, microprocessor, digital signal processor, FPGA, or other such computational device together with support components such as memory, power management, timing, and other items necessary for their operation. They are suitable and intended for integration into an end product, and offer product developers access to modern computational and interface capabilities without necessity of high speed hardware design experience.
Isolator Gate Drivers are the interface between power signals and an external MOSFET or Bridge architecture circuit. The technology types are capacitive coupling, magnetic coupling, and optical coupling with 1, 2, or 4 channels. The voltage isolation ranges from 1000Vrms to 7500Vrms and the propagation delay ranges from 30ns to 5ms.
Discrete Field Effect Transistors (FETs) are widely used in power conversion, motor control, solid-state lighting, and other applications where their characteristic ability to be switched on & off at high frequencies while carrying substantial amounts of current is advantageous. They are used almost universally for applications requiring voltage ratings of a few hundred volts or less, above which other device types such as IGBTs become more competitive.
Real Time Clocks (RTCs) provide time and/or date information in almost any electronic device which needs to keep accurate time. The clock types are binary counter, clock/calendar/supervisor, elapsed time counter, phantom time chip, portable system controller, temperature recorder, time event recorder, and timer clock peripheral. They contain memory sizes ranging from 2 B to 2 MB and have interface options of I2C, Parallel, Serial, SPI, 1-Wire, 2-Wire, 3-Wire, and 4-Wire.
Products in the DC-DC switching regulator PMIC (Power Management Integrated Circuit) family are component-level devices used in applications requiring stabilization of a DC input voltage and/or transformation thereof to an output voltage of different magnitude. They are distinguished from similar products called "controller" PMICs by virtue of integrating the main switching element through which the power delivered by the device passes.