New generation of power supplies will be needed for mobile market 18 July 2001 While the whole world awaits more advanced mobile Internet devices to come into the marketplace, it is a new generation of power supplies that will allow these devices to be as useful as imagined. According ...
Clip-on heatsinks 18 July 2001, Actum Electronics In keeping with its policy of designing timesaver heatsinks, Aavid Engineering has introduced its 5768 Series clip-on heatsink for TO220 package devices.
This unique plug-in heatsink has four spring-action ...
Integrated solution reduces design time for ballasts 18 July 2001 International Rectifier has released its new IRPLDIM2 digital addressable dimming ballast reference design that allows manufacturers to deliver digital addressable ballasts to market quickly by providing ...
1,2 V regulator controls power-up sequencing in microprocessors 18 July 2001, MB Silicon Systems Micrel Semiconductor is offering a tiny, low-voltage regulator for power-up sequencing in microprocessors. Capable of providing up to 150 mA, the new MIC5248 is equipped with a power-good output that ...
Power management and control devices 18 July 2001 Philips Semiconductors' power management portfolio covers a broad range of types of products. Some key families in its extensive high efficiency power conversion range are described below.
Key families ...
Smoothing harmonics - roads to compliance with EN 61000-3-2 18 July 2001, Electrocomp In recent years, the number of electronic loads using power supplies with rectifiers has risen in leaps and bounds. The resulting extreme distortion of the AC line current by harmonics ultimately led ...
New power semiconductor package 18 July 2001 Ixys offers a new package for power semiconductors. The very flat ECO-PAC package (at 9 mm high) enables compact design and economical system solutions to be developed. It offers a wide choice of circuit ...
Energy saving device for lamps launched 18 July 2001 Philips Lighting has launched the latest in energy saving technology onto the SA market. The Philips TRIOS Luxsense is a light sensing device, which is meant to be integrated into 'down-lighting' luminaires, ...
Low dropout regulators deliver more power to the portable world 4 July 2001 Today's increasingly portable world is calling for new ways to regulate voltage while meeting space and high-volume cost demands. The answer, says Analog Devices, lies in its line of anyCAP low dropout ...
DC-DC converter programmable via SMBus/I2C 20 June 2001 Linear Technology's LTC1699 is a variable resistor divider with +0,35% accuracy, and software programmed through a 2-wire SMBus or I2C interface. It provides the flexibility to digitally set the output ...
High speed P-channel MOSFET driver 20 June 2001 Linear Technology's LTC1693-5 MOSFET driver/buffer is designed to drive P-channel power MOSFETs at very high speeds. The 1,5 A peak output current and low switching delay reduces switching losses of high ...
High-performance heatsinks 23 May 2001, Sivan Electronic Supplies Alutronic offers a generation of high-performance heatsinks. The caulked cooling fins are of an entirely new design that the company says gives them optimal thermal properties.
The relationship of surface ...
Ultrafast medium current MOSFET/IGBT driver 9 May 2001 Ixys has introduced the IXDD404, a new CMOS high-speed dual MOSFET/IGBT Driver IC. It has two identical drivers that can each deliver 4 A peak into a highly capacitive load. This makes it suited for medium ...
Off-line switcher IC delivers higher energy efficiency 9 May 2001 Power Integrations' energy efficient, low power off-line switcher IC family, named TinySwitch-II, maintains the simplicity of the company's previous TinySwitch line while providing additional features ...
HEXFETs improve 2 V converter efficiency 9 May 2001 IR is offering two 20 V HEXFET power MOSFET families that are designed to increase efficiency by up to 4% in 12 V-input DC-DC converters. The new IRF3711 and IRF3704 series are designed for multiphase ...
Lowest on-resistance RAD-hard P-channel MOSFETs 9 May 2001 New 30, 60, 100 and 200 V P-channel R5 RAD-Hard MOSFETs from International Rectifier have an average of 24% lower device on-resistance and 81% lower gate charge than similar products in the radiation-hardened ...
Cap-free, linear regulators provide low dropout and low noise 9 May 2001 The Burr-Brown REG10x family of cap-free, low-noise, ultra-low dropout linear regulators (LDOs) from Texas Instruments offers 100 mA to 1 A output without the requirement of capacitors or external supplies.
The ...
Load share controller eliminates 'OR'ing diodes for N+1 redundant supplies 9 May 2001 Linear Technology introduces the LTC4350, a controller that allows the load current to be equally shared among multiple power supplies. By using isolation FETs and very low value sense resistors, it provides ...
Power factor correction solution meets new EMC directive 9 May 2001, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Intersil claims to have developed a simple and efficient solution to meet the recently-approved European standards for boost power factor correction (PFC) of power supply standards at low cost. Intersil ...
