Keysight Technologies announced a new add-on to PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) that enables designers to perform pre-compliance testing on virtual prototypes of switched-mode power supply (SMPS) designs. This new capability saves the time and cost of iterative build and test of physical prototypes. Demand for SMPS is driven by the need for greater efficiency, increased power […]
Power Electronics Top Talks in March 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 VFD to control 3-phase AC induction motor – I want to control the speed of a woodcutter that is equipped with […]
Power electronics models, analyzers address HEV/EV, solar applications
The Keysight PD1000A Power Device Measurement System for Advanced Modeling and the W8598BP/BT Power Electronics Model Generator Software are new tools for modeling and simulation of power electronics devices. Keysight is partnering with industry leaders in the HEV/EV power-conversion market to help them transition smoothly towards the use of wide band gap devices in their […]
Test/measurment suites target high-power/high-voltage and battery deployments
Keysight Technologies, Inc. today announced the launch of a suite of test and measurement solutions for the rapidly growing battery, HEV/EV and HEMS markets. The global electric vehicle market—ranging from mild hybrids to battery electric vehicles and HEMS—are fast growing and very dynamic, with a large number of new application areas and implementation characteristics. Based […]
The case for dc power integrity measurements
Modern electronic systems with their numerous supply voltages need a careful analysis of their power distribution scheme to avoid problems with noise, jitter, and transients. KENNY JOHNSON KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. WITH the continual rise in circuit density and performance of modern electronics there has been a proportional increase in the scrutiny applied to the dc […]
Free seminar teaches power integrity concepts
Keysight is offering a free seminar to help high-speed digital design engineers, SI and PI engineers, and design team managers, learn the skills they need to overcome signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) challenges. Attendees will gain detailed information about SI and PI design, analysis and simulation, and learn new simulation techniques for DDR4/DDR5, […]
Power of power integrity analysis in high-speed digital designs
by Anil Pandey, Principal R & D Engineer, Keysight Technologies, and EDAboard.com forum member The Emergence of Power Integrity Analysis As the speed of the data signal increases, many reasons including power supply noise lead to the degradation of the high-speed signals. In low power high-speed digital interfaces, it is crucial to characterize the whole system power […]
Power quality analyzer checks three-phase lines—and doubles as BS detector for false energy efficiency claims
If you want to really see what’s happening on power lines, you need an instrument that can generate a phasor diagram of the line voltages and currents. An instrument able to do that and much more recently became available from Keysight Technologies. Engineers can use the firm’s IntegraVision PA2203A four-channel power analyzer to observe three-phase […]
How to evaluate cutting-edge power semiconductors
by Ryo Takeda and Alan Wadsworth, Keysight Technologies Investments in power semiconductor devices continue to grow. Performance and reliability also improve each year through the employment of new structures and new wide bandwidth materials such as SiC and GaN. Particularly with respect to these new power devices, it is important to evaluate operating properties. Sometimes […]
High-power rack delivers 1,500 V, 3,060 A
Keysight Technologies, Inc. introduced a rack system for high-power DC applications. The prewired N8900 Series rack system reduces system complexity and saves time for engineers designing and implementing high-power systems for challenging applications requiring up to 90 kW. When engineers design high-power racks, they face system design, debugging and safety challenges associated with high voltages. […]
