Primary side sensing on dc-dc converters has the great advantage that it eliminates the need for feedback components, particularly opto-isolators, in low-power mains power supplies - for phone charging and LED driving for example. ...
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Japanese carmaker Mazda will recall about 15,000 units of its Mazda6 vehicles across the globe, over an overheating of capacitor. Mazda Australia has already started the process of recalling about 15,31 Mazda6 vehicles to rectify a ...
Mazda Australia is recalling more than 1500 Mazda 6 models after identifying a potential fault with the vehicles’ electrical system. Part of a global safety recall of approximately 15,000 Mazda 6 models in direct response to two ...
Advanced Power Electronics has announced the APE2902, a high-efficiency VFM Step-up DC/DC converter for small, low input voltage or battery powered systems with ultra-low quiescent supply current. Devices can operate from a positive input ...
Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) of Fayetteville, AR, USA, a developer of technology for power electronics systems, electronic motor drives and power electronics packaging, and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ...
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APEI and GaN Systems have developed a 1MHz gallium nitride power dc-dc boost converter delivering 5kW at 98.5% efficiency. GaN power transistors are lightning fast, have low on-resistance, and are been proposed for converters working ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC9010 development board to make it easier for engineers to start designing with a 100V enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field-effect transistor (FET) ...
Tags: EPC, Power Conversion, eGaN FETs
NXP has announced a 3.6V loudspeaker driver that can deliver 3.4Wrms into an 8Ω speaker. The voltage headroom required comes from an on-chip dc-dc converter with a 9.5V output. Aimed at mobile phone use, it can deliver a lot of ...
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Linear Technology has revealed its solution to the thorny problem of active cell balancing in electric and hybrid vehicle batteries. Implemented in the newly-released LTC3300, the topology uses one fly-back transformer per cell and allows ...
Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA is to showcase its latest power management solutions at the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2013) at Long Beach Convention ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has expanded its dual-band ProEficient-Plus power amplifier (PA) family with the introduction of the AWT6765, optimized for LTE bands ...
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German Siemens Company recently acquired VePoint Company of Semikron International, in order to further expand the business of E-Car. VePoint Company, located in Nuremberg, Germany, has 30 staff. Siemens and Semikron didn’t publish ...
Vicor has introduced a buck regulator for point-of-load applications which is efficiency optimised for 12V input voltages. The Picor PI34XX series buck regulators will deliver 95% peak efficiency for 12V to 3.3V regulation and up to ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
Tags: RFMD, GaAs, Smartphones, Samsung Galaxy
Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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