Design Tips

September 2017

Ultra-Low Power IoT Specialist e-peas Gains Further $4.2 Million in Venture Capital

Continuing to make major advances in energy-autonomous technologies, e-peas has just completed a new round of funding of $4.2 million (Euro 3.5 million) from leading investors. The group of industrial and financial investment firms involved in this funding round, led by Partech V

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Date:

09/29/2017

Figure 1. LTC7150S Typical Application Schematic(7150 TA01a)

High Power Density Systems Demand High Current Converters

Steve Knoth & Steve Zhou, Power Products, Linear Technology Corporation, Now Part of Analog Devices

The expanding market for high current, low voltage digital ICs reached $9.2B in 2016 [source: Intense Research Co]. This group of digital ICs includes microcontrollers and microprocessors (µC & µP), programmable logic devices (PLDs), digital signal processors (DSPs), application specific integrated circuit (A

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Date:

09/25/2017

Increasing the Power Density and Efficacy of Datacenters Using a Two-Stage Solution for 48V Power Distribution

Qian Ouyang, Rohan Samsi, and Jinghai Zhou, Monolithic Power Systems

Current datacenters typically have a 12V backplane and distribution on board and need to convert the voltage down to around 1V, which is usually achieved with a synchronous buck regulator, single- or multi-phase. The racks in these datacenters normally max out at a power rating of 20kW. There is a need in the in

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Date:

09/25/2017