APEC 2020, to be held in New Orleans, La., from March 15-19, 2020, continues the long-standing tradition of addressing issues of immediate and long-term interest to the practicing power electronics engineer. APEC is now accepting submissions for the first of its 2020 speaker deadlines, the Technical Program Papers. Interested authors wishing to present a Technical […]
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AVX earns 2018 TTI Supplier Excellence Award
AVX Corporation has earned a TTI Supplier Excellence Award in the Americas region for the fifth consecutive year. Bestowed by TTI, Inc., an authorized, specialty distributor of interconnect, passive, and electromechanical (IP&E) components, the TTI Supplier Excellence Award recognizes AVX for its superior execution of several key quality performance metrics aimed at elevating supplier and […]
Sager Electronics expands with Calex Power Products
Sager Electronics, a leading North American distributor of Interconnect, Power and Electromechanical components and provider of value-add solutions, today announced the addition of Calex Manufacturing Co., Inc., to its line card. Calex, a subsidiary of Murata Power Solutions, Inc., offers a wide variety of cutting-edge DC-DC power converters for automotive, transportation and industrial applications. Steve […]
PMICs for energy harvesting incorporated into tracking equipment
Highlighting the huge application potential of the company’s advanced power management ICs (PMICs), e-peas has confirmed that its AEM10941 devices for photovoltaic energy harvesting are being incorporated into tracking equipment employed in Australian cattle ranches. e-peas engineers worked in conjunction with the team at Dutch systems integrator SODAQ on the development and implementation of energy […]
PSMA Power Technology Roadmap provides critical insights into technology
The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) recently released the 2019 edition of the Power Technology Roadmap. The report, which forecasts the power technology and power delivery trends through 2023, includes a printed report along with a feature-rich USB memory drive containing a record number of seventeen recorded webinars with up-to-date explanations of the information contained […]
ON Semiconductor to acquire Quantenna Communications
ON Semiconductor Corporation and Quantenna Communications, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for ON Semiconductor to acquire Quantenna for $24.50 per share in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition consideration represents equity value of approximately $1.07 billion and an enterprise value of approximately $936 million, after accounting for Quantenna’s net cash […]
Sager Electronics to carry encapsulated sixteenth-brick converters from Murata Power
Sager Electronics is now stocking Murata Power’s IRS-Q12 encapsulated sixteenth-brick converters. Murata Power’s IRS series makes another dramatic size shrink down to a “sixteenth-brick” width while still retaining a high power output and full 2828 Volt DC isolation. The converter family accepts 9 to 36V DC inputs and delivers fixed outputs regulated up to within /-.125%. Excellent […]
ON Semiconductor hosts 2019 Americas power seminars
ON Semiconductor has announced it will be hosting the 2019 Americas Power Seminars, between April 22nd and May 2nd, giving electronic design engineers in all disciplines access to ON Semiconductor’s experts in power management, power conversion and power supply design. The seminars cater to all skill levels, from beginner to expert, and represent the semiconductor industry’s […]
APEC session highlights new materials for high-frequency magnetics
The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Magnetics Committee is sponsoring an Industry Session at APEC 2019 covering new magnetic materials for high-frequency power conversion. The session will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Room 210 B/C of the Anaheim Convention Center. The Magnetics Industry Session IS01 will […]
Review: Examining power and energy use with the Joulescope
The Joulescope is an inexpensive test instrument designed to let developers of embedded systems get a good look at the energy and power consumption of their hardware during important events such as interrupts and wake-up sequences. Developed by a company called Jetperch, Joulescopes are about to become available through a Kickstarter campaign launching Feb. 19. […]