Minimize Winding Losses in High-Frequency Inductors

As a basic building block of virtually all power electronics equipment, inductors have a unique potential for improvement...

Inverter Design Shines in Photovoltaic Systems | Renewable Energy Applications

The electric utility grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system is an important technology for future renewable energy applications...

Battery Charger Adapts to Multiple Chemistries

A microcontroller-based mixed-signal design produces a programmable and adaptable battery charger for different rechargeable chemistries...

The Parallel Universe of Negative-Input Voltages

Difficulty arises when a negative-input voltage must be used as the input source for a dc-dc converter...

Control Hot-Swapping on Negative-Voltage Supplies

Positive-voltage controllers can be configured for hot-swapping either dual positive and negative supplies, or a single negative supply...

Optimism About Manufacturing Could Be Productive

A survey released by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) found that North American manufacturers consider the United States to be the most desirable country for expansion over the next three years...

Data Points: Robust Investments Boost Low-Power AC Drives Market

Robust Investments Boost Low-Power AC Drives Market Strong growth continued in 2007 for the low-power ac drives market...

Spotlight on Interconnects: Crimp Terminal from Molex

The MarKK crimp terminal from Molex features a high-conductivity alloy to offer up to 13.5 A per line based on a two-circuit system...

New Products: Time-Interval Analyzer

Brilliant Instruments’ BI200 Time Interval Analyzer is a PCI Expressbased instrument-on-a-card for time and frequency measurement...

Garage Shop Era is Over for Power-Supply Industry

The 21^st century business environment has created an altogether different paradigm in the power-supply industry...

Renewable Energy Sparks Component Development

The rapid growth in renewable energy systems, particularly solar- and wind-power systems, is creating demand for specialized power components...

No Heatsink Needed for 200-W Buck-Boost Supply

A common problem power-supply designers face is how to generate an output that, at any time, can be above or below the input, particularly in battery-powered systems...