Lighting & Illumination
May 2017
Detect Power Variations with Analog Devices’ ADE9000 AFE for Power Quality Monitoring
Detect Power Variations with Analog Devices’ ADE9000 AFE for Power Quality Monitoring, Now at Mouser
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the ADE9000 analog front end (AFE) from Analog Devices. The ADE9000 is a highly integrated polyphase AFE with power quality analysis des
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05/31/2017
Renewable energy is booming in the United States.
“We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.”
- Peter Diamandis, author and founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation
We’ve never been closer to commercializing viable replacements for
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Date:
05/31/2017
eRamp
One of the most important European research projects for energy efficiency, “eRamp”, is coming to a close. Over the past three years, 26 partners from business and science have explored innovative electronics components for using energy even more efficiently. Their focus was on the rapid introduction of new pr
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05/30/2017
Infineon starts volume production of first full-SiC-module, announces additional devices for its CoolSiC™ family
Higher efficiency, increased power density, smaller footprints and reduced system costs: these are the main advantages of transistors based on silicon carbide (SiC). Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) is starting volume production for the EASY 1B, the first full-SiC module announced during PCIM 201
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05/17/2017
LEM reinvents the fluxgate technology for high accuracy current measurement with a low noise level, over a wide temperature range
LEM reinvents the fluxgate technology, announcing the new IN 2000-S high accuracy current transducer for non-intrusive and isolated measurement of DC, AC and pulsed nominal current of 2000 A. This is the first model of a future family that will cover a range of different primary currents.
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05/16/2017
New gate driver IC targets applications from 400-690 VAC, including three-level topology inverters
Power Integrations, the leader in IGBT and MOSFET driver technology for medium- and high-voltage inverter applications, today announced an expansion of its SCALE-iDriver™ family of galvanically isolated single-channel gate driver ICs. The new devices support IGBT blocking voltages up to 1700 V, which are generally us
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05/16/2017
LED Drivers from Diodes Incorporated Increase Efficiency in LED Strips
Appealing to lighting designers, the BCR401U, BCR402U and BCR405U constant current regulators introduced by Diodes Incorporated enable simple driving of low-current LED strips and panels in the commercial and industrial lighting sectors. Targeted at 12V and 24V linear LED strips, these regulators increase light o
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05/11/2017
TRENCHSTOP™ Advanced Isolation package for discrete IGBTs
Infineon Technologies introduces the new package technology TRENCHSTOP™ Advanced Isolation. It is available for TRENCHSTOP and TRENCHSTOP Highspeed 3 IGBTs for best-in-class thermal performance and simpler manufacturing. The two versions are performance optimized to replace both fully insulated packages (FullPA
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05/11/2017
An Ultralow Distortion 15dB Gain Wideband Differential Amplifier Extends Outstanding Dynamic Range to Low Frequencies
Analog Devices announces the LTC6432-15, a wideband fully differential amplifier with 15dB gain, offering linearity of up to +50.3dBm OIP3 (output third-order intercept), very high OP1dB (output 1dB compression point) of +22.7dBm, and 3.2dB noise figure at 150MHz. In addition to its outstanding signal-to-noise
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05/11/2017
Analog Devices’ Versatile 50 Mbps RS-485 Transceiver Series Protects Communication in Harsh Environments
Analog Devices has announced the availability of two 50 Mbps RS-485/RS-422 transceivers for use in harsh environments including industrial automation, motor control, military and avionics. The ADM3065E and ADM3066E transceivers combine IEC61000-4-2 Level 4 electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection,
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Date:
05/11/2017
BCM series of DC-DC converters utilizing the Converter
Vicor Corporation has announced the expansion of its BCM series of DC-DC converters utilizing the Converter housed in Package™ (ChiP) power component format.
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BCM series of DC-DC converters utilizing the Converter
The new BCM6123TD1E2663Txx is a
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05/10/2017
Over the last several years mainstream distribution of U.S. electronics has ended up in the hands of “the Big Three” – two major players in the U.S. and one privately held Canadian company. Concerned that the large semiconductor companies have determined they are not getting the ROI they need from the di
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05/05/2017
This is the busy time of the year for those of us in the Power Electronics Industry.
APEC was a great show and PSD held their 8th annual golf tournament along with sponsors, Mouser Electronics and Coilcraft. Congratulations goes to United Silicon Carbide who proudly was the recipient of the perpetual tro
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Date:
05/05/2017
The world has a bottomless appetite for energy – and electrical energy is no exception. Of the electricity generated, it’s estimated that approximately 45% of electricity is used to power motors. Compare this to lighting, which accounts for about 19%, even with LED lighting making a significant impact in
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Date:
05/05/2017
DIN-rail power supplies
Digi-Keys worldwide customers now have fast and easy access to AC/DC and DC/DC converters from PULS, the DIN-rail power supply specialist. The power supplies and matching supplementary modules are now in stock at Digi-Key and available for immediate shipment.
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DIN-rail power supplies
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Date:
05/04/2017
Batteryless EPD (Source: Toppan Printing)
The IoT has a battery problem. IoT implementations require large numbers of small devices deployed in areas without easy access to mains power. These devices therefore need to be low power and battery powered. But battery-powered devices present challenges. Batteries need to be recharged or replaced regularly, an
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05/03/2017
Relative timing of all edges for the input clock (CLK) and the two outputs (HS & LS)
This article is Part Two of a mini-series, presenting useful SPICE model blocks to help motor control and power supply designers perform effective simulations. Part One introduced a block called “DUALCLOCK” that generates two floating clock outputs (see PSD, March 2017) for driving half-bridge circuit
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05/03/2017
Schematic drawing of conventional HV planar MOSFET and SJ MOSFET
We are surrounded by electrically powered devices. The mobile phones in our pockets, the laptop computers we use on the job, the television in our living rooms, the servers powering the Internet, or even the EV car in our garage - all require electricity to operate and drive the demand for power supplies which ar
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05/02/2017
See the different sources of power quality problems in the United States (left) and Europe (right). Source: Melhorn et al., 2005, McNulty et al., 2002, Manson & Targosz, 2008
According to a recent study published by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), large industrial facilities in the US lose over $100 billion every year due to power problems including power supply variations and voltage disturbances. When the lights flicker at home, it’s an annoyance. But when po
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Date:
05/02/2017
LTC3886 Schematic Converting 48VIN to 5V/15A & 12V/15A
Knowing the condition and operating status of a voltage regulator is perhaps the last remaining blind spots in today’s modern electronic systems since they do not normally have the means for directly configuring or remotely monitoring key operating parameters. It’s usually critical for reliable operation wh
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Date:
05/02/2017
Dynamic characterization platform
Silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs switch up to five to ten times faster than silicon (Si) IGBTs and can operate at higher junction temperatures. Because they can switch on and off so quickly, they enable higher switching frequencies and therefore allow those designing inverters and other power converters to shrink th
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Date:
05/02/2017
μMaxPak Smart Single-Switch Cross-Section
Power WBG Package Requirements
The power Wide Band Gap (WBG) market is ramping with SiC and GaN devices replacing Si FETs and IGBTs for higher power and higher voltage products. These WBG materials will not only provide far superior performance and speed, but provide higher power densities, efficiency, rel
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Date:
05/02/2017
