The product is a highly integrated PD controller. It complies with the latest USB Type-C and PD 3.1 standards and supports BC1.2 and the most popular high voltage fast charging protocols with a DPDM ...

Renesas Electronics Corp. has released the first in a series of new reference designs that simplify the development of USB Power Delivery (PD3.0) and USB-C battery-charging applications. These include ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the embedded solutions leader, today announced the availability of a compact and highly-integrated USB-C controller ...

Renesas’s USB-IF–certified reference design kits accelerate the design of multi-port USB-C hubs and multi-battery-cell power banks. The RTK-251-1PowerBank3 board is a 3-cell (series connected) Li-ion ...

USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, Type-C offers enhancements to the existing USB 3.1 ...

There is a tendency as we get older, to retreat into an instinctive suspicion of anything new or associated with young people. All of us will know older people who have fallen down this rabbit hole, ...

For one-off projects, adding a few integrated circuits to a PCB is not too big of a deal. The price of transistors is extremely low thanks to Moore and his laws, so we’re fairly free to throw chips ...

Remember the “good old days?” 1993, to be precise. Yes, we know that 1993 was the year of NAFTA and “Robin Hood: Men In Tights,” but that year also notched up several technological firsts: the first ...

With Silicon Labs’ new single-chip solution, designers can develop customized USB Type-C rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs for dual-role port applications. We’re seeing more portable devices ...

Control Messages are short and manage the Message flow between Port Partners or for exchanging Messages that require no additional data. Data Messages exchange information between a pair of Port ...