The agreement allows Ricoh to offer its products via another online distribution channel next to the traditional regional distributors. Through a one-stop shop service, design engineers will have direct access to select from a wide range of Ricoh devices for their consumer, automotive and industrial applications.
Ricoh’s semiconductor product offering from Digi-key includes a variety of analogue ICs providing low current consumption, high accuracy, small sized packages and high reliability. Featured products are LDO Voltage Regulators, Supervisory ICs, DC/DC Controllers and Converters, Load Switches, and Real Time Clock ICs.
LDO Voltage Regulators: The large line-up is designed for a wide range of purposes, including specific products with advanced current saving technology, low output noise, fast transient response, low and wide operating voltage range or ultra-small sized package.
Supervisory: Providing several solutions to the market such as voltage detectors to monitor a voltage threshold, (window) watchdog timers to monitor proper processor operation and reset timer ICs to reboot an application with a key combination when needed.
DC/DC Converters: Available in buck, boost and buck-boost configurations in both low and high operating voltages, the main feature for these products is to achieve a high efficiency voltage conversion in either Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) or Variable Frequency Modulation (VFM) operating mode.
Load Switches: Ricoh offers several products like USB high side protection switches, load switches, battery power line switches and overvoltage protection switches.
Real Time Clock: The portfolio includes products with a 2-wire I2C, 3-wire and 4-wire SPI serial bus interface, available with basic features only, with integrated backup battery switchover circuit and modules with integrated crystal. A high accuracy programmable calibration adjustment to minimise clock deviation is available in all RTC products.