Power
Freescale introduces intelligent sensor for car battery monitoring
Freescale Semiconductor today introduced the MM912J637 intelligent battery sensor (IBS), which accurately measures the voltage, current and temperature of lead-acid batteries and calculates the battery state, all while operating in harsh automotive conditions.
TI introduces NexFET™ Power Block devices in a 3 mm x 3 mm package
Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced a new NexFET Power Block device in a space-saving 3-mm x 3-mm SON package. The new CSD86330Q3D Power Block package achieves greater than 90 percent efficiency at 15 A in half the area of competitive solutions that require two discrete power MOSFETs in 3-mm x 3-mm QFN packages.
Powerstax USA launch of its NEW Ruggedised 1000 watt DC-DC Power Supply at Electronics New England
Powerstax, one of Europe’s leading application-rich power solutions manufacturers, will use the Electronics New England (formerly Nepcon East & Electro 2011) exhibition in Boston to show their new TVS1001 ruggedised 1000 watt DC-DC power supply for the first time in the USA.
Ericsson 400W Power Interface Module Simplifies Low-EMI Design In ATCA Applications
Ericsson Power Modules announces the PIM4328P, a new 390-540W power interface module (PIM) compliant with the 300W de facto industry-standard footprint. The quarter-brick PIM4328P is optimized to simplify design in blade servers based on Advanced TCA (PICMG 3.0) systems.
Cost efficient 8W/10W/15W DC/DC converters ECONOLINE: REC8 - REC10 - REC15 series
RECOM announces that the recently introduced REC8, REC10 and REC15 DC/DC converters are now UL-60950-1 safety certified to complement the EN60950-1 certification that they already possessed. This means that they are now approved for applications world-wide.
Power over Ethernet capability added to industrial Ethernet switch family
The HARTING Ha-VIS 4000 family of industrial Ethernet switches has been extended to include Power over Ethernet capability, allowing devices such as cameras and wireless access points to be integrated quickly and easily into an industrial network.
Whitepaper - An Introduction to Digital Control of Switching Power Converters
Applying digital methods to the control of power converters, in particular board-mounted dc/dc converters, offers a rich set of possibilities from which to create new features, improved performance, and much greater product flexibility, and all at lower cost. Power converter operating characteristics dictated by a stored program, rather than the parameters of a set of discrete components, can mean tremendous cost and space savings as well as capa...
Whitepaper - Digital Power Helps Get Products to Market More Quickly
Power engineers have bigger and bigger challenges. Designs are more complex as the performance and capabilities of integrated circuits continues to increase.
Automotive-grade programmable stepper-motor driver ICs
The A3981 and A4980 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe are two new automotive-grade programmable stepper-motor driver ICs that are designed to operate bipolar stepper motors in full-, half-, quarter- and sixteenth-step modes at up to 28 V and ±750 mA in automotive, consumer and industrial applications.
Dual Output Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller with Excellent Channel-to-Channel Current Sharing Boosting Power & Reliability
Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3869/-2, a dual output high efficiency (up to 95%) synchronous step-down DC/DC controller with well balanced current sharing between channels when paralleled.