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TDK Product Information NEWS	Vol.043　May 2020

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・Product Overview "Pressure Sensor Dies – Pressure Measurements Methods" has been released. ・Product Overview "What is the difference between Zener/TVS diodes and varistors? Four comparison aspects to consider with regard to usage" has been released. ・µPOL™ Embedded DC-DC Converters: The product portal has been released.

Product Overview "Pressure Sensor Dies – Pressure Measurements Methods" has been released.

The high precision of piezoresistive sensors and their ability to measure absolute, gauge and differential pressure allow their versatile use in a wide range of applications. All applications place increasingly demanding requirements on the distinctive characteristics of the pressure dies and call for specific design features already on the die level. The TDK pressure sensors portfolio has been developed with a strong focus on increased sensitivity and high performance with a smaller die size. In addition, particular attention is paid to specific features for media resistance and easy process ability.

》Product Overview Pressure Sensor Dies - Pressure Measurements Methods

Product Overview "What is the difference between Zener/TVS diodes and varistors? Four comparison aspects to consider with regard to usage" has been released.

Chip varistors and TVS diodes are commonly used as over-voltage protection components.
Their structural design and manufacturing methods are completely different, but they offer similar characteristics with regard to protection from static electricity.
They generally can therefore be used interchangeably in a circuit, but there are cases where chip varistors are considered to be not suitable.
For historical reasons, many of the specification items given in catalogs and data sheets are different, which makes it difficult to compare characteristics based solely on these data, unlike in the case of capacitors and other general components.
The aim of this article is to clarify the difference between varistors and diodes and to introduce data that can be used to compare the two.

》Product Overview What is the difference between Zener/TVS diodes and
varistors? Four comparison aspects to consider with regard to usage

µPOL™ Embedded DC-DC Converters: The product portal has been released.

μPOL™ product family represents a new type of DC-DC converters. This is designed to power modern microprocessors, microcontroller, ASIC, FPGA, DSP and advanced digital logic devices. μPOL™ technology offers an integrated solution including Power Semiconductor and Inductor in a very compact solution and with its I2C communication the device is configurable for a vast range of applications. Lots of design efforts have been made in order to make this device easy to use, system designers need to only add input and output capacitors to have a complete DC-DC converter.

》Product Portal　µPOL™ Embedded DC-DC Converters