By the Power Guy, TDK-Lambda AC-DC power supplies for the medical market have long been not only safety certified to the IEC 60601-1 medical standard, but also to the industrial IEC 60950-1/IEC 62368-1 standards. Dual certification reduces the number of individual model numbers that must be produced and stocked; this practice improves production efficiency and […]
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Power Electronics Top Talks in July 2019 on EDABoard.com
Peer-to-peer, engineer-to-engineer questions and answers from the EDABoard.com engineering community around power electronics. Click the “Read more” link and follow the entire conversation and maybe add your two cents by logging in to EDAboard.com Booster converter circuit – I am working on booster converter project and I chose my switching device MOSFET IRFZ44N. My input […]
Designing for energy-efficient smart buildings and smart factories
by Christine Young, blogger, Maxim Integrated Thanks to sophisticated building automation technologies, today’s buildings can do a lot for themselves, minimizing some of the human intervention that has traditionally been required. Heating and cooling, lighting, access control, and security are just a few of the functions that can now be automated. With modern control and […]
Power Integrations charges ahead with GaN-on-Sapphire-based switches
Just one day after Yole Dévelopment released a report detailing a Power Integrations’ GaN-on-Sapphire HEMT IC found in the Anker‘s PowerPort Atom PD 1 wall charger (released at CES in January), the supplier of high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion announced today the new family of offline CV/CC flyback, GaN-based InnoSwitch3 AC-DC converter ICs. The […]
Understanding low-power checks and how to use them
by Aijaz Fatima, Mentor, a Siemens business We live in a shrinking world, and like so much else, the size of ICs is shrinking too. The small size of an IC has many advantages, but it increases the power density of the IC, which leads to many concerns. An IC with a high power density […]
Putting the Traco Power 450 Series power supplies through their paces
In this short video, Executive Editor Lee Teschler and Senior Editor Lisa Eitel power up a couple of power supplies from Traco Power in Switzerland and watch some of the things they can do. One supply is an open frame model in a power-dense 3×5-inch footprint. The other is enclosed. We’ve powered up the open-frame […]
Power Electronics Top Talks in June 2019 on EDABoard.com
Peer-to-peer, engineer-to-engineer questions and answers from the EDABoard.com engineering community around power electronics. Click the “Read more” link and follow the entire conversation and maybe add your two cents by logging in to EDAboard.com 24V to 5V buck converter – I want to design a simple buck converter that converts a 24V input to a […]
Charging electric vehicles, Part 2: The connections
Part 1 introduced some of the issues related to charging of electric vehicles. Part 2 continues with a look at the hardware (which also involves software, of course). Q: What about the electrical and physical connections? A: There are three connection situations, called “cases”: Case A has the charger connected to the AC mains, and […]
Charging electric vehicles, Part 1: The numbers
It’s nice to envision that recharging an electric vehicle is as straightforward as filling up an internal combustion vehicle, but it’s not: there are multiple charging, power, and connector options as well as limitations. You’re driving your internal-combustion (IC) car, and the gauge indicates it’s time to get “gas” (of course, it’s actually gasoline). So […]
How LiFi and LEDs will combine to brighten our future
by Paul Golata, Mouser Electronics Gone are the days when lights were standalone devices whose sole purpose was to illuminate a particular area. The rise of connectivity and data-dependency in our lives means the role of luminaires is changing. Connected lighting systems (CLSs), using light-emitting diode (LED) technology and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, now […]