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 ...
5 W surface mountable DC-DC converter 9 May 2001, Vepac Electronics Interpoint offers the MSM series of DC-DC converters delivering up to 5 W from a 28 V input in a surface mountable package. Mature design technology incorporated in the series maintains high-reliability, ...
Solderable profiled heatsinks 9 May 2001, Sivan Electronic Supplies Alutronic offers lightweight aluminium profiled heatsinks with multipoint solder fixing feet for assembly in a dip soldering bath.
The pre-tinned solderable punched/bent parts with twin soldering pins ...
125 W DC-DC converter with built-in EMI filter 9 May 2001, Vepac Electronics Interpoint's MSS Series family of DC-DC converters features a built-in EMI filter which meets the requirements of MIL-STD-461E, CE102 (no external components required); an output that can be adjusted ...
Power devices in MiniBLOC package 25 April 2001 Ixys' Power MOSFET family, the IXKN40N60C in SOT 227B package, is suitable for switching frequencies above 250 kHz. Besides the optimised switching behaviour the CoolMos transistor typically has a very ...
IGBT modules in SKiiP technology 28 March 2001, Electrocomp Semikron developed its SKiM product range in joint cooperation with important international customers of power electronics. It says that this ensures global compatibility of the modules and fulfils the ...
New chip architecture increases DC-DC conversion efficiency 28 March 2001 International Rectifier has introduced iPOWIR technology, which it claims is a whole new way to design on-board DC-DC converters for computing and communications equipment.
Power demands for digital ...
