News & Updates from STMicroelectronics
March 2009

MDmesh™ V power MOSFETs - industry's best on-resistance per area for highest efficiency and power density in 650 V rating

With an RDS(on) of 0.079 ohm at 650 V, the 33 A STP42N65M5 is the first MDmesh V device available to the market featuring the worldwide best on-resistance per area in TO-220. The improvement in RDS(on) achieved with MDmesh V significantly reduces losses in line-voltage PFC circuits and power supplies. This in turn enables new generations of electronic products offering greater energy savings, superior power density, and more compact designs. The MDmesh V devices are available in several compact power packages, targeting power-conversion systems where small size and low energy consumption are the major goals. More

STMicroelectronics unveils microcontroller-based sensing capability

To help engineers implement touch-sensitive controls easily, with minimum additional cost and size, ST announced the availability of its open-source capacitive touch sensing software library for its 8-bit STM8 MCU platform. With this library, designers can combine touch sensing functions through multiple configurations, such as touch keys, wheels or sliders, while preserving the traditional STM8 MCU features for the application firmware, including communication, LED control, beeper, and LCD control. The software is provided as royalty-free C source code and offers a maximum of flexibility to software engineers to configure, adapt or accommodate the library according to application needs. More

ST's new DC-DC module simplifies point-of-load power supply design

The SPDC12L00010 DC-DC power-supply module speeds designer’s time to market and saves space for whenever space is a major constraint. This module provides designers with a 10 A switching DC-DC power supply in a tiny, small-profile, fully-featured solution that can be soldered directly onto the system motherboard. Measuring only 15 x15 mm, the SPDC12L00010 fits into even very dense systems, and its low profile prevents obstruction of air flow, helping dissipation even without forced ventilation or heatsinks. More

EMIF01-TV02F3 - 1-line anti-aliasing, EMI filter and ESD protection for SDTV-out interfaces

Mobile phones with multimedia features require demanding performances for leakage current and PCB footprint. STMicroelectronics helps designers meet these requirements without compromising the performances of the system. The EMIF01-TV02F3 is 10 times smaller than the equivalent discrete solution and takes 100 times less operating current than equivalent active solutions. More

High-brightness RGB LED array with LED error detection based on the STP24DP05 and STM32

The STEVAL-ILL015V1 demonstration board provides a platform to test and evaluate STMicroelectronics’ power logic LED driver STP24DP05. Its core device, the STP24DP05, is a 24-bit constant-current LED sink driver with output error detection. This makes this demo board suitable for applications such as large-area displays and full-color board panels where improvement in RGB LED resolution and reduction of system cost are important. The demo board is distributed with firmware which enables standalone and non-standalone demonstration. Features include LED diagnostics, adjustable brightness and color of each individual LED, animated text and a GUI (graphical user interface) software for LED diagnostics. More

Learn about Power over Ethernet and ST's solutions in 20min online Webseminar

Power over Ethernet technology is today widely adopted to power appliances connected to a LAN cable. A fast-paced, professionally-narrated technical webseminar is now available online to introduce you to PoE technology and ST's solutions. After a discussion of PoE technology, the presentation gives a detailed description of the PM8800A together with application information. Efficiency measurements are presented for some representative cases based on evaluation boards available from ST. More

ST invites you to free, hands-on STM8S and motor-control technical seminars in North America

The STM8S seminar introduces the new STM8S family covering the advanced 8-bit STM8 core and the internal memory architecture, clock security system and state-of-the-art peripherals. See how easy it is to get started on an STM8S design using the low-cost and easy-to-use starter kits and firmware libraries. The motor control seminar provides a rich technical and practical presentation highlighting the basic design principles, drive topologies, advanced motor control concepts and tools and software libraries that allow you to simplify and speed-up your designs. These limited-attendance seminars will be held in several USA and Canada locations during the months of April, May and June 2009. Attendees participating in the seminars will get a chance to walk away with a free development kit. More

Join us at ESC Silicon Valley to lean about STMicrolectronics' award winning range of 8-bit to 32-bit MCUs

Visit us on Booth 1412 where we will be showing application demonstrations of the newly announced STM8S family which sets higher standards for 8-bit MCU performance, integration, robustness and value. STM8S demonstration will include capacitive touch sensing and motor control. Also on display will be the recently announced STM32 Connectivity line which brings the award winning STM32 32-bit MCU family to a total of 75 fully compatible MCUs. STM32 demonstrations will show the new connectivity options including Ethernet and USB OTG. ESC Silicon Valley is in the McEnery Convention Center San Jose and the expo runs from March 31 - April 2. More