A new assortment of durable Nylon card guides for vertical mount circuit boards are among the latest circuit board mounting devices available from Keystone Electronics Corp. Engineered to stack and secure printed circuit boards (PCBs), these new Vertical guides install directly into an adjacent board with no need for chassis mounting. All Keystone Vertical card […]
Power Supplies
60V Synchronous Buck Controller Simplifies Power Supply Design
Intersil Corporation, a provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, announced the first 60V synchronous buck controller able to bypass the intermediate step-down conversion stage traditionally employed in industrial applications. The ISL8117 synchronous step-down PWM controller’s low duty cycle (40ns minimum on time) enables the direct step-down conversion from 48V to a 1V […]
Vicor Corporation Further Expands Picor® Cool-Power® ZVS Regulator Portfolio
Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR) announced the expansion of its Picor® Cool-Power® ZVS Point-of-Load Regulator portfolio with the introduction of high efficiency PI3542, PI3543, PI3545, and PI3546 buck regulators. The entire Cool-Power portfolio is characterized by products with benchmark efficiency and density performance that are simple to use, accelerating time to market. Enables 48 V direct […]
USB AC adapter/power supply certified to ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1
USB AC Adapter/Power Supply Certified to ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1 for the United States and Canada and EN/IEC 60601-1, 3rd edition for Europe, Asia, and Africa and is rated up to 6W output with 5-6V output options. Model Series WR9QA1000USBNMEDRVB GTM41078-0605-USB Continuing to pursue its commitment to quality products and service, GlobTek, a world-class leader in the […]
600 V GaN transistors for compact power supplies and adapters
ON Semiconductor and Transphorm, building on their previously announced partnership to bring gallium nitride (GaN) based power solutions to market, announced the co-branded NTP8G202N (TPH3202PS) and NTP8G206N (TPH3206PS) 600 V GaN cascode transistors and a 240 W reference design that utilizes them. With typical on-resistances of 290 and 150 mΩ, the two new products, NTP8G202N (TPH3202PS) and NTP8G206N […]
Vicor Corporation Expands its DCM™ DC-DC Converter Module Series
Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR) announced the expansion of the DCM Converter Module Series of isolated, regulated DC-DC converters within Vicor’s Converter housed in Package™ (ChiP) power component platform. This series now covers critical applications in Aerospace, EV/HEV, Rugged Systems, Industrial, and Telecom/Datacom. DCMs provide nominal input voltages of 24, 28, 48, 270, 290, and 300 […]
Ultra Low Component Count, 5 volt Qi Low Power Wireless Charging Transmitter Reference Design
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced the availability of a new and highly optimized reference design for 5 volt low power Qi wireless charging transmitters, compliant with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) 1.1 Qi specification. The design is based on NXPs single-chip 5V wireless power transmitter IC, the NXQ1TXA5 that was launched in 2014. It […]
NXP Announces Revolutionary New Resonant LLC GreenChip Platform
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced its new GreenChip power solution, the TEA1916+TEA1995 platform – an innovative and easy-to-design new Resonant LLC solution targeted for desktop PC/AiO, gaming consoles, notebook adapters and large panel TVs. Building on NXP’s success as the market leader in GreenChip power ICs, the new TEA1916+TEA1995 Platform offers very high efficiency […]
Power converters with GaN
by Alex Lidow, CEO, Efficient Power Conversion Corp. It can be tricky to analyze power supply designs incorporating GaN power devices. Here are the basics of calculating losses and device currents when using these exotic semiconductors. There is a lot of activity in wide-bandgap semiconductors these days. They have the ability to operate at much […]
High switching frequencies come to laptop chargers
New designs for switch-mode power supplies are pushing frequencies higher as a way of cramming circuitry into smaller and smaller volumes. An indication of the trend can be seen from the recently developed Dart power supply from Finsix, a start-up with roots in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Finsix device fits in the palm […]