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Silicon Carbide Schottky Rectifier from Cutter Electronics (19/02/2007)

... improve levels of efficiency in power inverters. This advance means that applications such as solar and wind power converters, industrial motor drives, and electric vehicles using these Cree devices can increase their operating efficiency beyond ...

Rugged dc/dc converters released by Snaptec (16/02/2007)

... an increasing amount of electric equipment being used on vehicles and marine vessels, the need for good quality power converters to power equipment such as navigation and radio equipment, mobile telephones or car hi-fi systems is on the ...

IR Introduces smartRectifier IC for AC-DC power converters (20/11/2006)

... Rectifier, IR, a world leader in power management technology, has released IR1166 SmartRectifier IC for AC-DC power converters used in laptops, mini-PCs, LCD and PDP televisions, game systems, home theater audio, motor drive, and other digital ...

Isoedge dielectric coated metal substrate for power converters (1/11/2006)

... IsoEdge technology allows the use of highly optimised heat sink designs that can effectively increase 3-D packaging densities, reduce part counts and labour at assembly, and normalise thermal gradients within a DC/DC converter - all of ...

Next generation switch-mode power supplies (2/08/2006)

... MICROCHIP Technology, a leading provider of microcontrollers and analogue semiconductors, has announced a family of 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) for common, multi-loop switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and other ...

Microchip Technology's new Digital Signal Controllers power next-generation switch-mode power supplies

New Digital Signal Controllers (20/07/2006)

... MICROCHIP Technology Australia Pty Ltd, a leading provider of microcontrollers and analog semiconductors, has announced a family of 16-bit dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) for common, multi-loop switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and ...

IC slashes part count by 75% (24/03/2006)

... Rectifier (IR) has introduced the IR1167 SmartRectifier IC for ac-dc power converters for laptops, mini-PCs, LCD and PDP televisions, game systems and other digital computing and home entertainment systems.Available from Arrow Electronics, the ...

Rectifier for ac/dc power converters (21/03/2006)

... Rectifier, represented in Australia by Arrow Electronics, has introduced the IR1167 SmartRectifier IC for ac-dc power converters for laptops, mini-PCs, LCD and PDP televisions, game systems and other digital computing and home entertainment ...

Size effects to scaled interconnect performance? (19/01/2006)

... more strongly on the wire resistance for the rings with high-speed inverters as compared with those with low-power converters, because of the low-power inverter's higher output resistance. Therefore, the wire resistance has a larger impact on ...

New Energy Efficiency Standards for External Power Supplies (19/01/2006)

... IC manufacturers began to integrate automatic frequency reduction features into their devices. This enables power converters designed around those ICs to easily meet the new energy-efficiency standards. Since the supply’s switching frequency ...

How Real are Size Effects to Scaled Interconnect Performance? (19/01/2006)

Renowned School Revamps Lab (19/01/2006)

... motors are being integrated into machine designs, from appliances to autos. Future designers will use integrated power converters even more than they do today, he predicts.For working engineers wanting to get a leg up on that future, the ...

New Energy Efficiency Standards for External Power Supplies (19/01/2006)

Power goes digital (19/01/2006)

... lack simple tools to squeeze performance out of microcontrollers in power converters. easy-to-understand guidelines can help designers take advantage of analog knowledge to ease the transition into digital control for power ...

DC/DC Converter Brochure (18/01/2006)

... Isolated and non-isolated modules in SIP packages, including boost converters, tracking buck converters and low power converters are noted. Further detailed are 1?× 2? isolated converters, as well as those in 1/16 brick and 1/8 brick sizes. A bus ...

Power-industry coalition announces PMBus standard, forms SIG (11/01/2006)

... has released Version 1.0 of the PMBus (Power Management Bus) specification, which defines a protocol to manage power converters and a power system using communication over the SMBus digital-communication bus. The coalition has also announced the ...

CPower-system communications support digital-power growth (11/01/2006)

... a group of devices but not all devices at one time. For example, if the system needs to simultaneously start three power converters, then all three must receive a single command to enable their respective outputs. Repeated starts within a ...

Features flexible architecture with four operating modes.

Industry’s first average-program load-share controller (21/10/2005)

... load-share controller that provides all the functions required to balance the currents delivered from multiple power converters operating in parallel.The device supports two common applications for load-share controllers - external control, in ...

Controller for forward active clamp reset converters (19/10/2005)

... features and flexibility that reduces the complexity and cost of external parts. It enables designers to implement power converters using the active clamp reset technique with peak current-mode control.Active clamp reset is one of the most ...

Drift safety goes digital (26/08/2005)

... parallel-configured silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR) with modern digital technology. “The new power converters combined forward and reverse functionality in each power box,” said Michael Graves, project engineer with Rockwell Automation Drive ...

How real are size effects to scaled interconnect performance? (11/08/2005)

... more strongly on the wire resistance for the rings with high-speed inverters as compared with those with low-power converters, because of the low-power inverter’s higher output resistance. Therefore, the wire resistance has a larger impact on ...

100V fully integrated Buck bias regulator (5/05/2004)

... range of the popular LM5007 80V Buck bias regulator, which was introduced last year.It is ideal for use in 48V power converters, and in telecommunication, automotiveand battery-powered applications.The LM5008 is used to step down a ...

Distributed power converters (4/05/2004)

... TDK has released the iQD and iEB dc/dc converters. The iQD series is a quarter-brick type measuring 58mm x 37mmx 9.7mm. The iEB series is an eighth-brick type measuring 58mm x 23mm x 8.5mm.They have no control, insulated functions, standard ...

Power factor correction toolkit (26/02/2004)

... actual controller (+driver) IC and it offers a much faster simulation engine than using SPICE models for switching power converters.Another FETBench improvement focuses on the rising popularity of synchronous buck dc/dc converter ...

Sync buck power MOSFET selection tool (21/11/2003)

... MOSFET selector tool is designed to help the engineer select appropriate MOSFETs for low voltage dc-to-dc sync-buck power converters in the computing, networking and telecom markets.The user enters circuit parameters, and at the press of a ...

First dual 5-amp gate drivers (12/09/2003)

... provides a cost-effective, high-speed PWM and field effect transistor (FET) driver chipset solution for modern power converters with high-current, low-voltage outputs."The LM5110 is the industry's first MOSFET driver offering split-supply ...

TI joins point of load alliance (POLA) (24/06/2003)

... agreement with Texas Instruments (TI), represented by Avnet, to standardise leading technology for high performance power converters, ensuring interoperability and customer design flexibility.These agreements promote pin-compatible, advanced ...

Heavy-duty, metallised-film power capacitors (17/06/2003)

... as low-cost capacitor solutions for dc and ac filtering and for dc linking in uninterruptible power supplies and in power converters for traction and industrial drives.In addition to exceptionally low inductance and high current ratings, the ...

Power electronics simulation software tool (15/05/2003)

... with these add-on modules, PSIM is the ideal tool to meet your needs in analysis and design of power converters, motor drive systems, and analogue and digital control ...