Semiconductor Industry Legend Retires
Apr 23, 2008
On Monday, International Rectifier announced that the company’s founder Eric Lidow will retire from his position as chairman...
Switching Regulators Replace 1-A Linears
Apr 23, 2008
Pin-compatible with 78xx linear regulators, V-Infinity’s V78XX-1000 series of 1-A switching regulators deliver efficiencies of up to 95%...
Boost Controller Supports Industrial LED Lighting
Apr 23, 2008
With its wide, 4.5-V to 52-V voltage range, Texas Instruments’ TPS40211 nonsynchronous boost controller enables designers to efficiently manage LED lighting, industrial control and battery-powered systems. The chip is capable of driving 1-W to 5-W high-brightness LEDs...
PWM Controller Creates Scalable Designs
Apr 23, 2008
Intersil’s ISL8120 dual-output or variable-phase PWM controller combines a wide input- voltage range, current sharing and variable phase shifting to create a highly scalable controller design...
28-V Battery Charger Is Small and Safe
Apr 9, 2008
Maxim Integrated Products’ MAX8814 single-cell Li-ion battery charger is distinguished by its robustness and high level of integration...
Optocouplers Operate Over Wide Temperature Range
Apr 9, 2008
A family of high-speed digital CMOS optocouplers from Avago Technologies operate from +3.3-V and +5-V supply voltages at a minimum speed of 15 Mbaud, while also operating over a wide temperature range of -40°C to +105°C...
200mA LDO Features 1-mm2 Footprint
Apr 9, 2008
Offered in a 1-mm2 wafer-level chipscale package, Austria Microsystems’ AS1369 is a 200-mA ultra-low dropout regulator that has been specifically designed for space-critical applications such as mobile phones and PDAs...
Buck Regulator Delivers 2.5 A from 4 mm x 4-mm QFN
Apr 9, 2008
Linear Technology’s LTC3602 is a 3-MHz synchronous buck regulator that uses constant-frequency, current-mode control to deliver up to 2.5 A continuous at voltages as low as 0.6 V from a 4-mm x 4-mm QFN or TSSOP-16...
Vendor Will Provide Chips for Mobile Internet Devices
Apr 7, 2008
Maxim Integrated Products has entered into a collaboration with Intel to develop highly integrated power-management and multimedia solutions for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs)...
4-A Buck Regulator Now Comes in Military Grade
Mar 26, 2008
Linear Technology has introduced a military plastic grade (MP-grade) version of its LTC3414 4-MHz synchronous buck regulator...
FET Drivers Feature High Performance, Small Package
Mar 26, 2008
From Maxim Integrated Products, the MAX15024/MAX15025 are high-speed, single/dual MOSFET drivers in a thermally enhanced, 3-mm x 3-mm, TDFN package...
Op amp Delivers Precision At High Voltage
Mar 26, 2008
Texas Instruments’ OPA454 precision power op amp operates on supplies up to 100 V and delivers an output current of ±50 mA with a 150 mA short-circuit limit...
CIPS 2008 Explored Reliability and Many Other Issues
Mar 26, 2008
The recent 5th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS 2008) in Nuremberg, Germany brought together 232 attendees from industry, research institutes and universities to discuss a variety of advanced power technology topics...
Digital Controller Eases Design of Isolated Power Supplies
Mar 12, 2008
A digital power controller developed by Analog Devices to implement isolated power converters aims to provide the same ease-of-use that until now was only available with digital power controllers for nonisolated converters...
Controllers Are Optimized for Montevina CPU
Feb 26, 2008
Intersil’s ISL6266A chip is a two-phase core controller designed to improve the efficiency and performance of systems based on Intel’s Montevina platform...
