This is the unedited transcript for webinar: Consumer Electronics: Designing with Flexibility for Reliability. Click here to watch the webinar on demand. Mike Santora: Hello everyone. Thank you for being patient while we got a few things set up with our software on our end. I want to thank everyone for being here for today’s […]
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A Mercedes in your yard: The lithium battery on your solar array could come from Daimler
Automaker Daimler AG wants to have a bigger presence in lithium battery technology, and not just for electric vehicle batteries. To that end, it is establishing Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH which will take aim at the growing market for stationary batteries. Daimler says it started delivering storage batteries in the German market this past April. With […]
Single-channel DC/DC step-down power modules handle PoL work for FPGAs, DSPs and MCUs
Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, today announced two new single-channel DC/DC step-down power modules that deliver high power density and up to 95% efficiency in a compact 4.5mm x 7.5mm x 1.85mm footprint. The pin-compatible 5A ISL8205M and 3A ISL8202M provide point-of-load (POL) conversions for […]
Electric vehicles get a wireless charging standard
The automotive professional organization SAE International has approved a new standard for the wireless charging of electric vehicles. Called SAE TIR J2954 Wireless Power Transfer for Light-Duty Plug-In/ Electric Vehicles and Alignment Methodology, the new standard covers wireless power transfer between infrastructure, vehicle suppliers and OEMs for plug-in electric and electric vehicles (PH/EV). The document […]
12-V, 10-A, 10-MHz dc/dc converter
has super-high power density
A new dc/dc converter is said to be the industry’s first 12-V, 10-A, 10-MHz series-capacitor buck converter to provide more than 50 A/cm3 in current density, four times higher than any other 12-V power management component or system. Developed by Texas Instruments, the TPS54A20 SWIFT synchronous dc/dc converter uses a special topology to operate at […]
The hazy future of OLEDs
The market research firm IDTechEx recently updated its predictions for developments in organic LED (OLED) lighting technology. Its conclusion: Things look a bit hazy. OLEDs faced a challenge from the beginning because by the time OLEDs came along, conventional inorganic LED suppliers had accumulated enough production experience to improve LED performance and reduced costs. This, […]
The lucky four: Engineers get free
trip to Germany’s Hanover Fair
The world’s largest enclosure manufacturer Rittal Corp. has picked the winners of its “Win a Trip to Hannover Fair with Rittal!” contest: Andrew Neeld, Automation Engineer of Sedro Woolley, Wash. Jerry Flynn, Principal Engineer of Albany, Ore. Christopher Relyea, President of Columbus, Ohio Michael DeRosso, Sr. Engineering Technologist of Houston, Tex. “Hannover Fair is the […]
Things are smaller in Belgium: Belgian team wins
Little Box Challenge for solar inverters
A team from CE+T Power in Belgium has won the Little Box Challenge, a competition to invent a 3x smaller inverter for interconnecting solar power systems to the power grid. The winning team received a $1 million prize. Judging the competition were representatives from Google, the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and NREL. The winning inverter […]
Multiple charging modes from a single amplifier
by Michael A. de Rooij, VP, Applications Engineering, Efficient Power Conversion Though there are two standards for charging appliances wirelessly, a single circuit can be devised to serve as a charging node for both of them. The good news about wireless charging techniques is that they do away with messy wiring that tethers phones and […]
Researchers 3D-print supercaps with aerogels
Super-compact ultracapacitors could come out of work now progressing at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab where researchers are extruding graphene aerogel on a special 3D printer. The 3D-printing process LLNL developed is called direct-ink writing. It uses a graphene-oxide composite ink designed at the Lab. To make a supercapacitor, Lab researchers 3D-printed a lattice comprised […]