Power
Ericsson’s 3E Design Kit Enables Easier Exploration of Digital Power Architectures
Enhanced performance, Energy management, and End-user value are the key design objectives of Ericsson’s 3E range of digitally-controlled dc-dc converters. The newly-expanded product family comprises two intermediate-bus converters that source up to 240 and 396 W to power a choice of complementary 3E point-of-load regulators that can each supply 12 – 40 A. A second generation of the design kit, with extended features, now simplifies their impl...
Vicor Bolsters Global Strategy With Future Electronics and New VP of Global Distribution
Vicor announced the appointment of Future Electronics as a global distributor and of Richard Begen as Vice President of Global Distribution. Global distribution will support business growth with a broader base of customers having access to the competitive advantages enabled by Vicor’s high-performance power components and systems. Future Electronics will begin a phased rollout of Vicor’s products in August of this year.
Fairchild - PWM Controller Provides a Small Form Factor Solution for Space-Constrained Consumer Electronics
Device Provides Small Form Factor for Space Constrained Designs and High Surge Protection for Increased Reliability. Designers of consumer electronics under 40W – such as adapters, set top boxes, netbooks, and digital photo frames – all share the common challenge of needing an energy efficient solution that provides
Ultra compact 15-40 Watt power supplies with PCB or chassis mount options
XP Power has announced two additions to its range of ultra compact high power density AC-DC power supplies. New products include the introduction of the encapsulated single output ECE series, and multiple output models of the existing ECL family.
NXP Small-Signal MOSFETs Set New Benchmark in RDS(on)
NXP Semiconductors announced a new family of small-signal MOSFETs delivering breakthrough low RDS(on) performance. The low RDS(on) P-Channel and N-Channel MOSFETs enable lower power consumption for consumer electronics applications such as notebooks, tablets, handsets, e-readers, set-top-boxes and LCD TVs. These high-efficiency MOSFETs are available in high-volume SOT23 and SOT457 packages with a compact 3-mm x 3-mm footprint, allowing design eng...
Dranetz - Free Library of Power Quality and Energy Monitoring Articles
New www.dranetz.com website expands free online resources, including extensive technical article database, case studies, webinars and more!
Telonic - 250KW DC PROGRAMMABLE POWER SUPPLY
Telonic Instruments just released the Magna-Power Electronics MT Series V programmable high power dc power supply with a new, high power 250 kW module. This new fifth generation product now includes 65 models spread across independent 100 kW, 150 kW, and 250 kW modules, scalable into the megawatts through paralleling, with voltages from 16 Vdc to 4000 Vdc and currents from 24 Adc to 24000 Adc. The MT Series V features Magna-Power Electronics’ s...
1.5A Negative LDO Offers Fast Transient Response, Low Output Noise & Precision Current Limit
Linear Technology announced the LT3015, a 1.5A negative low dropout linear regulator featuring fast transient response, low noise, and precision current limit. With its wide input voltage range of -1.8V to -30V and adjustable output voltage from -1.220V to -29.5V, the device’s common emitter NPN power transistor design requires only a single supply and enables a low dropout voltage of 310mV (typical at full load). Output voltage noise is only 6...
Microchip expands RF power amplifier portfolio
Microchip announced the expansion of its RF power amplifier portfolio, with the addition of the new SST12LP17E and SST12LP18E power amplifiers. The SST12LP17E is the smallest fully matched power amp in its class, requiring only one DC bypass capacitor to achieve optimum performance. The SST12LP18E is a lower-cost, lower-voltage alternative to Microchip’s popular SST12LP14E power amp and offers the lowest operating voltage of any Microchip RF ...
National Semiconductor Introduces Industry’s First 100V Half-bridge Gate Driver for Enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride Power FETs
National Semiconductor has introduced the industry’s first 100V half-bridge gate driver optimized for use with enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride (GaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) in high-voltage power converters. National’s new LM5113 is a highly-integrated, high-side and low-side GaN FET driver that reduces component count by 75 percent and shrinks printed circuit board (PCB) area by up to 85 percent compared to discrete driver de...