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(03/02/2012)
Compact power supply modules from Rohm integrate an inductor, capacitors and other components needed for a power supply. The company claims that the BZ6A is the smallest power supply for high-density mounting use in a single packa...
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(12/01/2012)
International Rectifier has introduced the IRS2500S µPFC PFC (power factor correction) control IC for switch mode power supply, LED drivers, fluorescent and high intensity discharge electronic ballast applications. The controller ...
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(05/01/2012)
Texas Instruments has introduced power management ICs for energy harvesting. The boost charger for nano power energy harvesting manages the microwatts to milliwatts of power generated from solar, thermoelectric, electromagnetic an...
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(29/12/2011)
Overtaking its own best on-resistance/area product, STMicroelectronics has added the STW88N65M5 to the MDmesh V MOSFET family for power density in 650V rating. The company claims that it can improve a key efficiency metric by more...
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(09/12/2011)
Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its range of extended temperature IC photocouplers with the addition of three new high-speed, low-power devices. They are all available in miniature SO6 packaging. Typical data transfer rate...
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(08/12/2011)
An isolated flyback controller from Linear Technology, the LT3798, has single stage active PFC (power factor correction). It achieves a power factor of greater than 0.97 by actively modulating the input current, eliminating the ne...
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(08/12/2011)
Offering programmability and a degree of control for all lamps, the IRS2526DS ‘Mini8' CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) ballast control IC from International Rectifier is available in an 8pin SO-8 package. This is the company's third...
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(05/12/2011)
Two automotive audio amplifiers from NXP Semiconductors support energy-saving start-stop systems. Both amplifiers use the company's mixed-signal technology. The TDF8530 is an efficient, quad-channel, Class-D audio amplifier suppor...
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(01/12/2011)
Two buck regulators have been added to Summit Microelectronics' family of programmable DC/DC devices. The SMB220 and SMB221 integrated 10A and 20A buck regulators can be used for enterprise servers and storage systems, enterprise ...
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(01/12/2011)
Low dropout regulators, the LD6806CX4 from NXP, have low noise performance, of just 30µV RMS, which eliminates the need for an external, dedicated, noise reducing capacitor. It also has a low standby current of 0.1 µA and ESD robu...
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(30/11/2011)
Linear Technology has announced the LT3759, a DC/DC controller for boost, single-ended primary-inductance converter and inverting power supply applications. The controller has two voltage feedback error amplifiers and reference vo...
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(24/11/2011)
Texas Instruments has introduced four Simple Switcher power management ICs for space-constrained PoL designs. The National Semiconductor 1A LMZ10501 and 650mA LMZ10500 nano modules with on-chip inductor and 2A LMR24220 and 1A LMR2...
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(15/11/2011)
Provided in the low profile PowerDI-5SP package, the 12A-rated SBR12U45LH Super Barrier Rectifier is an efficient PV module bypass diode claims Diodes. The rectifier has a maximum package height of only 0.75mm, enabling it to be i...
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(15/11/2011)
Targeted for solar powered wireless modules, the MAS6011 solar cell energy harvesting system manager IC from Micro Analog Systems monitors the supply voltage and charging of a battery-powered system containing a small solar cell. ...
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(15/11/2011)
Claimed to be the first broadband, HomePlug 1.0-compliant, powerline communications transceiver for harsh environments, the MAX2982 is from Maxim Integrated Products. A ‘robust' mode provides a receiver that operates at -1dB SNR f...
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(11/11/2011)
A space-saving, AEC-Q100-qualified, dual synchronous, step-down DC/DC regulator from Intersil features a 2.25MHz switching frequency. The ISL78228 provides two independent 800mA outputs. The 3x3mm package makes it suitable for the...
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(11/11/2011)
Two 20V step-down voltage regulators from Texas Instruments have the company's PMBus digital interface and adaptive voltage scaling for non-isolated PoL designs. Combining analogue voltage regulation with digital control, the 2MHz...
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(10/11/2011)
According to the 2013 EU eco-design directive ErP (Energy-related Products) Lot 6, the maximum power consumption of electronic devices in standby mode is to be less than 0.5W. Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FSB series ...
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(10/11/2011)
Claimed to have the fastest rise and fall times available, the HIP4086A is a low noise, 80V, 0.5A, three-phase bridge driver IC which has low EMI. It reduces switching losses and simplifies the development of flexible bridge-based...
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(09/11/2011)
Able to drive SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride) fast-switching devices, Hades is an isolated gate driver from Cissoid. Designed to drive seamlessly SiC power transistors, which have low switching losses, it switches ...
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(09/11/2011)
A synchronous, buck-boost converter, the LTC3115-1, from Linear Technology, delivers up to 2A of continuous output current from a single-cell Li-Ion; 24V or 28V industrial rails and 40V automotive inputs. The 2.7 to 40V input rang...
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(09/11/2011)
Dual and single high IF sampling 14bit, 310Msample/s ADCs from Linear Technology are designed for wide bandwidth digital pre-distortion linearisation. Digital pre-distortion enables a basestation transmitter to operate at its high...
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(07/11/2011)
Rated at 600 V, the IRS2980 is the first in a family of high-voltage LEDrivIR ICs from International Rectifier. The high-voltage, buck regulator control IC is for non-isolated LED driver applications such as LED light bulb replace...
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(31/10/2011)
Analog Devices has introduced an energy metering IC that offers real-time harmonic analysis for energy meters and power quality monitoring equipment. Designed for polyphase meters, the ADE7880 energy metering IC offers harmonic an...
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(29/10/2011)
Linear Technology has introduced the LTC3867, a fixed frequency synchronous step-down DC/DC controller with nonlinear control, differential output voltage sensing and clock synchronisation. Nonlinear control minimises the output v...
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