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Simulation software boosts productivity for early power component designs

October 20, 2020 By Redding Traiger Leave a Comment

Synopsys, Inc. announced the industry’s most comprehensive virtual prototyping solution to accelerate power electronics system design from concept to validation for power components to large complex systems. As part of the solution, Synopsys introduced SaberEXP to deliver fast simulation convergence and higher productivity for early power component design, such as power converter and motor drive. SaberEXP also provides […]

Filed Under: Automotive, Development Tools, Industrial, Simulation, Software for power design, Software for power design Tagged With: synopsys

Top power electronics stories of 2017

December 31, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

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Here are the power electronics features that got the most interest from readers in 2017.         Teardown: Inside Ikea’s smart LED bulb As smart LED bulbs go, this one is pretty simple. It doesn’t incorporate any sort of smartphone app and can’t be controlled over the Internet, like some other smart bulbs […]

Filed Under: Featured, LED Lighting, MOSFETS, Power Management, Simulation, Wireless Tagged With: allegromicrosystems, infineontechnologies, onsemiconductor, texasinstrumentsinc

How to hot plug sequence your BMS cell connections

December 18, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas 1 Comment

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By Robert Grist, Intersil, a Renesas Company Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are used in a wide variety of portable system applications, including vacuum cleaners, lawn equipment, handheld power tools, e-bikes, and energy storage systems. Li-ion batteries are smaller, weigh less, and deliver longer battery life than other battery chemistries, but require monitoring and protection for safe […]

Filed Under: Battery Management, Featured, Power Management, Simulation Tagged With: basics, FAQ, intersil, renesaselectronicscorp

3D electromagnetic simulation software brings more accurate S parameter estimation

December 13, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

Remcom announces circuit co-simulation and expanded signal integrity capabilities in the latest update to XFdtd 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software. Circuit co-simulation facilitates a more realistic analysis of device performance by including imported circuit components within the electromagnetic simulation. The schematic for a desired component may be imported into XF via a netlist file, with support for SPICE […]

Filed Under: Power Management, Simulation Tagged With: remcom

SoC power management chips coordinate power use among 256 controllers

March 15, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

Sonics, Inc., today introduced ICE-G3™, the second product in the Energy Processing Unit (EPU) family based on the ICE-Grain Power Architecture™. ICE-G3 includes all of the on-chip power management capabilities of ICE-G1™ EPU with the addition of a key new component called the cluster controller. The cluster controller supports definition of complex power states at […]

Filed Under: Power Management, Simulation Tagged With: sonics

Top power electronics threads on EDAboard.com – December

January 3, 2017 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

(editor’s note: Intrigued by these power electronics problems? Have a question or another solution? Then click the “Read more” link and follow the conversation on EDAboard.com or log in to EDAboard and participate in the power electronics forum thread.) Designing adjustable voltage SMPS – I am planning to make an adjustable voltage SMPS. How do I […]

Filed Under: AC-DC, Controllers, Converters, DC-DC, Featured, Industry Experts, MOSFETS, Power Components, Power Management, Regulators, RF Power, Simulation

Better thermal design means better efficiency

October 4, 2016 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

The strategic use of computational fluid dynamics can speed the development of high-tech products. BORIS MAROVIC, JOHN PARRY MENTOR GRAPHICS CORP. TRADITIONALLY, analysis using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) took place late in the design process once changes to part geometries had pretty much stopped. But CFD is starting to be applied at earlier stages of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Power Electronics Handbook, Simulation Tagged With: mentorgraphics

Spice sims handle 16FFC FinFET and 7-nm FinFET processes

September 22, 2016 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced further enhancements and optimizations for various products within the Calibre® Platform, and Analog FastSPICE (AFS™) Platform, as well as the completion of further certifications and reference flows for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) 16FFC FinFET and 7nm FinFET processes. Moreover, the Calibre offering has been extended on additional […]

Filed Under: Featured, Power Management, Simulation Tagged With: mentorgraphics

Top power electronics threads on EDAboard.com – August

September 1, 2016 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

(editor’s note: Intrigued by these power electronics problems? Have a question or optional solution? Then click the “Read more” link and follow the conversation on EDAboard.com or log in to EDAboard and participate in the forum thread.) IGBT circuit problems – I have some doubts on a result I’ve obtained. I’m using a circuit, as […]

Filed Under: AC-DC, Battery, Featured, Industry Experts, Power Components, Power Management, Power Supplies, Resistors, Simulation, Three-phase Tagged With: edaboard.com

Oztek to showcase OZip, an intelligent power module

March 8, 2016 By Andrew Zistler Leave a Comment

Oztek Corp will exhibit at APEC 2016 – Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition on March 21-24, 2016, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. OZTEK’s booth number is 1652. Oztek will showcase their OZip, Intelligent Power Module, which elevates integrated power to the next level. While others claim Intelligent Power, OZip […]

Filed Under: Power Management, Simulation Tagged With: oztek

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