Powering Embedded Systems

February 2022

Infineon Invests Over €2 Billion in New Frontend Fab

Ally Winning

There was a time where the trend in the semiconductor industry was to move to a fabless strategy. Why bother with the expense of a fab and gaining the expertise in-house to take care of complex manufacturing, when you could easily subcontract to a specialist who’d make your chips cheaply and with higher yields t

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Date:

02/22/2022

Digital Control for GaN Switches

Ally Winning

Digital control of power has been used in the silicon domain for well over a decade, and the benefits are now widely recognized. The ability to quickly adjust output on-the-fly to suit the load conditions has provided a large boost in efficiency for power circuits. That is not the only benefit - digital power mak

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Date:

02/16/2022

The Largest GaN Start-up in the World

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

The above title was ostensibly a throwaway remark by Peter Rogerson, the Senior Director of Marketing at Innoscience for North America and Europe on a call last week, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed appropriate. While not many start-ups have the backing of industry giants such as Arm and SK Hyn

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Date:

02/08/2022

TPI 180 and TPP 180 Series 180 Watt AC/DC power supplies

TRACO POWER’s TPI 180 & TPP 180 are a set of encapsulated AC/DC power supplies coming as open frame and encased versions. They feature a reinforced double I/O isolation (3000 VAC) system according to latest medical safety standards (60601-1 3rd edition, 2 x MOPP). The leakage current is below 300 μA and makes

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Date:

02/02/2022