Solutions for Electronics and Smart Applications Powering our Day-To-Day Living
(Part II)
Around a Microcontroller
Plus Everything That Goes
Leading MCUs/MPUs,
STMicroelectronics has the leading selection of MCUs and MPUs in the industry – plus the broadest portfolio of what goes around any microcontroller, from sensors to analog products to connectivity and more. This interactive infographic covers our core Connectivity, Protection, Power Management, and Interface products. See Part I of this infographic for info on MCUs and MPUs, plus MEMS, Sensors and Analog Products.
ST is one of the few semiconductor companies mastering many different technologies with innovations that make end products smaller, faster, more energy efficient, more reliable, and embedded with new functionality. Along with best-in-class solutions, ST provides high quality services from design enablement to technology delivery.
For more than 25 years, technology innovation has been at the core of ST’s strategy. We make significant investments in technology development to turn state-of-the-art technologies into cutting-edge commercial products. ST’s broad portfolio – from leading wireless microcontrollers to a wide range of analog and digital process technologies – can help you innovate today.
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Everything That Goes Around A Micro
Protection
Power Management
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Overview
Interface
We’ve shown you just the tip of the iceberg!
STMicroelectronics is well known as offering the leading selection of MCUs and MPUs in the industry. On top of that, as this infographic starts to show you, ST also has one of the broadest portfolios of all the products that go around a microcontroller – everything from sensors and analog products to connectivity, interfaces, power and protection products, and so much more.
ST believes the future should not be in the labs of a few, but in the hands of the many, and we believe in open ecosystems and a partnership approach. We provide easy-to-use software development tools, design kits, and support educational initiatives to make our technologies accessible to more engineers and enthusiasts today. At ST, we are creators of technology. And our technology starts with you.
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• Power Conversion • STPower • Battery Management • Voltage Regulation
• ESD • Automotive Protection • Surge Protection
• RS-232 • RS-4xx • USB • Smartcard Interfaces • Power Line Transceivers • LVDS
For info on MCUs and MPUs, plus MEMS, Sensors and Analog Products See Part I
• Wired • Wireless
ST offers a wide range of products and solutions to help you implement the wireless or wired connectivity technology you need to fuel the value of your network.
Wired Products
For Power Line Communication, USB Type-C, and Power Delivery Applications
Wireless Products
For Bluetooth Low Energy, SubGHz, LoRa, NFC/RFID, and ZigBee Applications
Over time, a wide range of wired connectivity technologies and standards have been developed to meet new requirements or use cases, such as USB and its new Type-C and Power Delivery specifications in personal electronics, or IO-Link for factory automation in addition to Ethernet with its global span.
ST offers a broad portfolio of RF transceivers and solutions to help ensure an efficient and fast implementation of a range of wired connectivity technologies.
Whatever the nature or purpose of a network, there is a wireless connectivity technology optimized to fit the specific range, energy per bit, and bandwidth requirements. With the growing importance of wireless sensor networks and the IoT, more and more electronic systems require wireless connectivity.
ST’s portfolio includes a variety of RF transceivers, network processors ICs, and fully certified modules for key wireless connectivity technologies.
Including sub-1GHz long-range networks including 6LowPan, Wireless M-Bus (wM-Bus), Sigfox, and LoRaWAN, Bluetooth-Smart®, LTE Cat 1, and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT).
As one of the world’s leading suppliers of both integrated and discrete power conversion semiconductors, ST’s Power Management ICs (PMIC) enable energy-saving, high-power density, and lower-standby power design solutions. ST’s broad power management product portfolio includes:
Power Conversion
With robust, advanced high-voltage converters, power factor correctors, a variety of controllers, and supervisors/housekeeping ICs – together with innovative architectures and extended temperature ranges – ST offers integrated solutions that meet all your switching-mode power supply design needs.
• High-Voltage Conversion • Automotive
Product Details
• Silicon Carbide (SiC) • MOSFET
Leading-edge power technologies for both high- and low-voltage applications combined with a full package range and innovative die bonding technologies exemplify ST’s innovation in power transistors belonging to the STPOWER family, including MOSFET and IGBT products.
STPOWER
• Automotive MOSFET • IGBT
• Battery Chargers • Automotive Battery Management IC’s
ST’s battery monitoring fuel gauge ICs offer a small footprint, outstanding accuracy, and extremely low power consumption. Battery chargers offer a range of charge currents from as little as 200mA up to 1.2A that can be used for any rechargeable chemistry lithium-ion battery.
Battery Management
• Linear Dropout Linear Regulators (LDO) • Voltage Regulators • Boost Current Regulator • Buck Regulator
ST offers a wide selection of fixed and adjustable linear voltage regulators. In addition to a complete portfolio of industry-standard regulators for both positive and negative output, ST offers an ever-expanding range of high-performance LDO regulators addressing all major industry trends.
Voltage Regulation
The VIPerPlus Series of high-voltage converters combines
an 800V avalanche-rugged MOSFET with a leading-edge PWM controller, enabling SMPS designs meeting the most demanding energy-saving regulations with enhanced reliability and scalability while also reducing the component count by 50 percent.
VIPower™ is a technology that provides control, protection, and diagnostics for medium/high-power automotive loads. The technology combines Vertical Double Diffused MOS Power devices with their own temperature and current sensors and CMOS and HV components for Power-Analog-Mixed design.
ST’s portfolio of silicon carbide devices includes 650 / 1200V SiC MOSFETs featuring the industry’s highest junction temperature rating of 200 °C for more efficient and simplified designs, and SiC diodes ranging from 600 to 1200V which feature negligible switching losses and 15% lower forward voltage (VF) than standard silicon diodes.
Silicon Carbide
ST’s power MOSFET portfolio offers a broad range of breakdown voltages from –100 to 1700V, with low gate charge and low on-resistance, combined with state-of-the art packaging. ST’s process technology for both high-voltage power MOSFETs (MDmesh™) and low-voltage power MOSFETs (STripFET) ensures an enhanced power handling capability, resulting in high-efficiency solutions.
MOSFET
ST offers a wide selection of automotive MOSFETs meeting various automotive system requirements. The AEC-Q101 MOSFETs are available with a breakdown voltage from – 80V (p-channel) up to 1200V (n-channel) and are available in the most common package options for increased design flexibility.
Automotive MOSFET
ST offers a comprehensive portfolio of IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors) ranging from 300 to 1250V, both in planar punch-through (PT) and trench-gate field-stop (TFS) technologies.
IGBTs
ST’s battery chargers are specifically designed for portable consumer electronics, smartphones, and wearable applications with charge currents from as little as 200 mA up to 1.2 A that can be used for any rechargeable chemistry lithium-ion battery. Products include highly integrated linear and switch-mode chargers combined with a set of added functionalities for traditional wired charging solutions and a wireless battery charging solution.
Battery Chargers
The L9963 is a Li-ion battery monitoring and protection chip for high-reliability automotive applications and energy storage systems. Up to 14 stacked battery cells can be monitored to meet the requirements of 48V and higher voltage systems.
Automotive Battery Management ICs
BATTERY MAMAGEMENT
ST offers one of the widest selections of fixed and adjustable linear voltage regulators. Along with a complete portfolio of industry standard regulators for both positive and negative output, ST offers an ever-expanding range of high-performance LDO regulators addressing all the major trends in the industry.
Linear Dropout Linear Regulators (LDO)
ST offers a range of standard linear voltage regulators that are a very stable and reliable solution for general-purpose consumer, SMPS, and industrial applications. They combine the highest level of ruggedness with the widest versatility and ease of design, for all kinds of linear power supplies that do not require ultra-low dropout and low quiescent current performance. This family of voltage regulators requires only very common and inexpensive external components, such as electrolytic capacitors and resistors to set the proper output voltage in the adjustable versions.
Voltage Regulators
ST provides a wide portfolio of high-performance step-up (boost) switching regulators, with both synchronous and non-synchronous switches and charge pump ICs. Other features include micropower operation with very low supply current, high efficiency, small size, adjustable or synchronizable switching frequencies, and current generators for LED driving.
Boost Current Regulator
ST’s monolithic step-down (buck) converter ICs offer input-voltage capability up to 61V, deliver output currents up to 4A with high switching frequency. This broad portfolio of ICs is composed of highly specialized products to meet every market requirement.
Buck Regulator
VOLTAGE REGULATION
ST’s large portfolio of protection solutions support all industry requirements for many product categories. ST’s protection devices have passed all certifications, meeting or exceeding international protection standards for electrical hazards on electronics boards found in the demanding automotive, computer, consumer, industrial, and telecom markets.
ST’s broad range of automotive-grade protection devices addresses all the protection needs in automotive applications from infotainment, navigation, communication, audio, and video to battery charging systems, smart junction boxes, and relay and power-line protection.
Automotive Protection
ST’s ESD protection devices, including transient voltage surge suppressors (TVS), clamping diodes and arrays, or Transils™, feature:
ESD
• IEC 61000-4-2 compliance • Protection efficiency with low clamping voltage • Protection reliability with low leakage current • Signal integrity with ultralow capacitance and ultrawide bandwidth
ST’s large portfolio of EOS 10/1000 µs transient voltage suppressors (TVS) include single diodes and arrays.
• Shield against surges related to power and data lines
Surge Protection
EOS 8/20 µs Power Surge Protectors
• Fully support both power line and data line application class requirements
EOS 10/1000 µs Transient Voltage Suppressors
• High-surge power capability from 100W to over 5000W
• Absolute best-in-class performance at full power even with high-junction temperatures
• High power density increases robustness and allows smaller packages for optimized savings
ST’s portfolio of interfaces includes standard interfaces – including RS-232, RS-422, RS-423, RS-485, LVDS, and USB – as well as I/O expanders, level translators, and application-specific interfaces for smart cards and Ethernet.
RS-232
ESD protected enabling true RS-232 performance
ST’s RS-232 product family includes transceivers with auto-power-down and standby functions, multi-channel interfaces and driver/receiver circuits. These devices have a 5V supply or a 3V to 5V supply and are ESD protected enabling true RS-232 performance.
RS-4xx
High-speed transceivers for RS-485, RS-422, and RS-423
The low-power, high-speed transceivers of this product family are designed for RS-485, RS-422 and RS-423 communication applications with high protection level from 16 up to 256 nodes. These transceivers usually contain one driver and one receiver in half duplex configuration and operate with a 5V supply and draw a very low supply current when unloaded or fully loaded but with disabled drivers.
USB
Products to help you re-invent the connectivity of tomorrow
ST’s USB portfolio covers a wide range of products designed for USB data (transceivers) and/or power applications, such as battery chargers and charger detection systems. With the recent introduction of the USB Type-C™ specifications and USB power delivery standards, ST has developed new USB Type-C product families that help you develop innovative products and applications.
Smartcard Interfaces
Smartcard readers for set-top boxes and IC card readers
ST offers complete analog interfaces for asynchronous 1.8V, 3V and 5V smartcards. They can be placed between the card and the microcontroller with only a few external components to perform all supply protection and control functions. Primary applications are smartcard readers for set-top boxes, IC card readers for banking, identification, and pay TV.
Power Line Transceivers
At the heart of Smart Grids
ST is committed to supporting advances in narrow-band power-line communication (PLC) technologies that are now largely adopted by Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Automatic Meter Infrastructures (AMI) solutions.
LVDS
Supporting cold-sparing and ensuring fail-safe operation
ST’s rad-hard LVDS series includes 400 Mbit/s LVDS drivers, receivers, serializers/de-serializers and cross-point switches featuring a large input common-mode range from –4 to +5V, able to withstand ESD up to 8kV.
