Real Time Waveform Analysis Helps Optimize Charger Performance

Real-time cycle-by-cycle waveform analysis shows that controllers can deliver optimum charger performance and cost to end users, while providing cell phone manufacturers with a robust design that is insensitive to manufacturing processes and component tolerances...

eGaN^TM FET-Silicon PowerShoot-Out Part 3: Power over Ethernet

The eGaN FET is a viable and efficient alternative to standard MOSFET solutions in Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications...

Digital Control Improves Bridgeless PFC Performance

Digital controllers provide flexible control, higher integration and improved performance for bridgeless PFCs...

Designing with DrMOS, Part II: Application Guidelines

A new class of power modules combine the driver and the MOSFETs in a single package, offering compact and efficient power conversion solutions...

Bus Converter Maximizes System Efficiency, Minimizes Heat Losses

Small size, high efficiency, and heat management are valuable attributes for any element in a computer system, but the elements that comprise the system depend to some extent on the system architecture...

Smart Motor Controllers Take Charge of Expanding Applications

Advances in packaging and performance spawn a variety of low-cost, intelligent motor controllers for an expanding range of consumer and industrial applications...

Schottky Diodes: the Old Ones Are Good, the New Ones Are Better

One of the oldest and one of the newest semiconductors, Schottky diode use can be traced back to before 1900 where crystal detectors were all effectively Schottky diodes...

Step-Down DC/DC Controllers Employ PMBus Functions to Enhance System Performance

A PMBus interface provides digital power management for dual output, high efficiency synchronous step-down DC/DC controller ICs...

Power Management Bus (PMBUS)

As explained by the Power Management Bus Implementer's Forum, The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is an open standard power-management protocol with a fully...

Are Technology, Innovation and Education Interrelated?

CHRIS HORWITZ had some interesting remarks when responding to my editorial in January. He's the CEO of Electrogrip, which makes high voltage equipment...

Report forecasts 20.5 GW Solar Installations for 2011

A NEW REPORT FROM IMS RESEARCH estimates that new PV installations grew by 130% to reach 17.5 GW in 2010, confirming the firm's earlier prediction back...

Companies Call for EU Single Energy Market

TWENTY EUROPEAN COMPANIES and associations are calling on EU Heads of State to show the courage and vision to create a single market for electricity by...

Thermacore Awarded Contract Extension for Active Heat Sink Technology

THERMACORE was awarded a $3 million Option Phase contract extension by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue developing and...

Patents

POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CONTROLLER WITH SWITCH NODE FEEDBACK Issued February 15, 2011 United States Patent 7,888,922 A power control system includes a...

Efficient, High-Performance EcoSpeed Regulator Platform with 24V, 3A Device

SEMTECH CORP. has expanded its efficient, high-performance EcoSpeed regulator platform to include a 3A output current device with a wide input voltage...

Compact Charger Identification Switch Supports USB, Apple, and CCSA YD/T Charging

MAXIM INTEGRATED Products introduces the MAX14566E, a USB charger identification solution that supports the charging of portable devices from notebook...

DIN-Rail Mount 40-60W DC-DC Converters

TDK-LAMBDA AMERICAS has introduced the new DPX Series to satisfy customer demand for DC-DC converters that can be easily mounted onto DIN rails. Available...

150 Watt Medical ATX Power Supply

ADVANCED POWER Solutions (APS) announces the MPM-815H Series of ATX 12V.0 Compliant U-Frame Switchers featuring convection cooled operation for medical...

Moisture-Proof Precision Resistor Chips

STACKPOLE'S RNCS Series is a passivated nichrome chip resistor that offers robust performance in a variety of harsh environments that previously only...

60V Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Specified up to 150C

LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP. introduces the LTC3810H-5, a high input voltage synchronous step-down DC/DC controller with guaranteed specifications for junction...