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KYOCERA AVX Releases Novel Stacked Capacitors

KYOCERA AVX Releases Novel Stacked Capacitors

KYOCERA AVX Releases Novel Stacked Capacitors

KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, released the new DSCC 25007 Mini BME Stacks — miniature, high-CV stacked X7R capacitors equipped with base metal electrodes (BME) and subjected to 100% Gr

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09/08/2025

Pfannenberg USA Introduces Next-Generation BESS Chillers: VLV and DMC Series Redefine Battery Thermal Management

Pfannenberg USA Introduces Next-Generation BESS Chillers: VLV and DMC Series Redefine Battery Thermal Management

Pfannenberg USA Introduces Next-Generation BESS Chillers: VLV and DMC Series Redefine Battery Thermal Management

Pfannenberg, Inc., a global leader in thermal management and signaling technologies, is proud to announce the launch of its latest innovation in battery energy storage system (BESS) solutions: the award-winning VLV 4-12 and DMC 8.0 Chillers, engineered specifically for the demanding needs of today’s BE

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Date:

09/08/2025

Low-Carbon Ammonia and Methanol Hold Potential in Energy Transition but Face Uncertain Outlook, says GlobalData

Low-Carbon Ammonia and Methanol Hold Potential in Energy Transition but Face Uncertain Outlook, says GlobalData

Low-Carbon Ammonia and Methanol Hold Potential in Energy Transition but Face Uncertain Outlook, says GlobalData

GlobalData

Ammonia and methanol are being promoted as low-carbon fuels and hydrogen carriers to support the global energy transition. They are currently being evaluated as alternatives for clean shipping, power generation, and long-distance hydrogen transport. However, despite strong interest, their large-scale adoption re

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Date:

09/05/2025

Kappa optronics Partnering with Mission H24: Innovative Hydrogen Race Car with Digital Mirrors

Kappa optronics partnering with Mission H24: Innovative Hydrogen Race Car with Digital Mirrors

Kappa optronics Partnering with Mission H24: Innovative Hydrogen Race Car with Digital Mirrors

Kappa optronics, the German specialist in advanced automotive camera systems, is proud to partner with MissionH24— the collaborative program between the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and H24project for the deployment of hydrogen in endurance racing. MissionH24, uses cutting-edge digital mirrors from Kappa optr

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Date:

09/05/2025

Zevtron Partners with SpotGenius to Monitor EV Charging Spaces with Vision AI Technology

Zevtron Partners with SpotGenius to Monitor EV Charging Spaces with Vision AI Technology

Zevtron Partners with SpotGenius to Monitor EV Charging Spaces with Vision AI Technology

Zevtron, the leading provider of intelligent EV charging solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with SpotGenius, an innovator in camera-based parking and space monitoring technologies. The collaboration will integrate SpotGenius’ Vision AI Technology into Zevtron’s industry-leading EV

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09/04/2025

Infineon Introduces AURIX TC4x Software to Enable Quality, Safety, and Security in Automotive Applications

Patrick Will, Senior Director and Head of Software Product Marketing and Management at Infineon

Infineon Introduces AURIX TC4x Software to Enable Quality, Safety, and Security in Automotive Applications

Infineon Technologies AG has launched a comprehensive software portfolio designed specifically for the latest AURIX™ TC4x microcontroller (MCU) family. It enables automotive safety applications with production ready ASIL D drivers for the AUTOSAR MCAL and safety software. By reducing efforts for software pa

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Date:

09/04/2025

Heilind Electronics Now Stocks 3M Four-Wall Header 2500 Series

Heilind Electronics Now Stocks 3M Four-Wall Header 2500 Series

Heilind Electronics Now Stocks 3M Four-Wall Header 2500 Series

Heilind Electronics, a leading global distributor of interconnect, electromechanical, and sensor solutions, is pleased to announce that it now stocks the 3M™ Four-Wall Header 2500 Series, a versatile 100″ × .100″ wire-to-board connector designed to deliver space-saving performance, reliable mating, an

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Date:

09/04/2025

iDEAL Semiconductor Announces 200 V Family of SuperQ-based MOSFETs With Industry-Leading Cost x Performance

iDEAL Semiconductor Announces 200 V Family of SuperQ-based MOSFETs With Industry-Leading Cost x Performance

iDEAL Semiconductor Announces 200 V Family of SuperQ-based MOSFETs With Industry-Leading Cost x Performance

iDEAL Semiconductor has announced the first of its 200 V family of SuperQ™-based MOSFETs has entered mass production, with four additional 200 V devices now sampling. SuperQ is the first major advance in silicon MOSFET technology in more than 25 years, breaking through long-standing limits in switching

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09/04/2025

SEGGER Establishes Programming-Support Partnership with Winbond Electronics Corporation

SEGGER Establishes Programming-Support Partnership with Winbond Electronics Corporation

SEGGER Establishes Programming-Support Partnership with Winbond Electronics Corporation

Effective immediately, SEGGER programming support is available for selected SPI flash-memory devices from Winbond Electronics Corporation. SEGGER’s highly regarded J-Link and Flasher product lines are now fully compatible with Winbond's high-performance W25H, W25Q, and W25X SpiFlash® multi-input/-output (I/O)

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Date:

09/04/2025

Infineon’s New EZ USB™ FX2G3

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Figure 1: EZ-USB™ FX2G3 architecture block diagram

Infineon’s New EZ USB™ FX2G3

Embedded designers often face trade-offs between resource-limited microcontrollers and power-hungry application processors. For devices that require sensor data processing and efficient data transmission like cameras, biometric sensors, and portable instruments, a dedicated USB device controller bridges the gap.

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Date:

09/03/2025

Toshiba Launches 650V 3rd Generation SiC MOSFETs in Compact TOLL Package

Toshiba Launches 650V 3rd Generation SiC MOSFETs in Compact TOLL Package

Toshiba Launches 650V 3rd Generation SiC MOSFETs in Compact TOLL Package

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (“Toshiba”) announces the release of three new 650V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, which incorporate its latest 3rd generation SiC MOSFET chips. The TW027U65C, TW048U65C, and TW083U65C are housed in a surface-mount TOLL package and are designed to reduce switching losses in

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Date:

09/02/2025

FORVIA HELLA and Tau Motors Partner to Develop Advanced Charging Solutions

FORVIA HELLA and Tau Motors Partner to Develop Advanced Charging Solutions

FORVIA HELLA and Tau Motors Partner to Develop Advanced Charging Solutions

The international automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA and Tau Motors, a pioneer in software-defined power conversion, are working on advanced charging solutions in the context of a strategic development cooperation. The focus is on the development of a "virtually isolated Onboard Charger (viOBC)" for el

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Date:

09/02/2025

Vero's Range of PCB Prototyping Aids and Accessories now Stocked at Anglia

Vero's Range of PCB Prototyping Aids and Accessories now Stocked at Anglia

Vero's Range of PCB Prototyping Aids and Accessories now Stocked at Anglia

Anglia Components is now stocking an extensive range of PCB Prototyping aids and accessories from UK company Vero Technologies Ltd. The two companies have signed an agreement covering the UK and the EU, giving Anglia’s customer base access to a wide range of products and accessories for PCB prototyping, te

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Date:

09/02/2025

Bourns Miniature Thermal Cutoff Mini-Breaker Series Supports New 240 Watt USB Power Delivery Standard Limit

Bourns® SE Series resettable miniature Thermal Cutoff (TCO) Mini-Breakers

Bourns Miniature Thermal Cutoff Mini-Breaker Series Supports New 240 Watt USB Power Delivery Standard Limit

Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today introduced its SE Series miniature Thermal Cutoff (TCO) Mini-Breaker devices that are designed to support 240 W, which meets the upper limit of the USB Power Delivery (P

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Date:

09/02/2025

U.S. Army Taps LiquidPiston to Build Ultra-Compact Mobile Command Post Auxiliary Power Unit

U.S. Army Taps LiquidPiston to Build Ultra-Compact Mobile Command Post Auxiliary Power Unit

U.S. Army Taps LiquidPiston to Build Ultra-Compact Mobile Command Post Auxiliary Power Unit

LiquidPiston, Inc., a leading innovator in compact, efficient, heavy-fueled rotary combustion engine technologies and hybrid power systems, has begun developing an ultra-compact auxiliary power unit (APU) for mobile command posts under a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Te

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Date:

09/02/2025

Lighting’s Uncertain Future

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Lighting’s Uncertain Future

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Welcome to the September issue! I should be sad at the end of summer, but truth be told, I’m just happy that this never-ending heatwave is abating. As you read this, we’re just a month away from one of the year’s premier events, The Battery Show at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. This year marks

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Date:

09/01/2025

Lighting the Future

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Lighting the Future

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Welcome to the September edition of Power Systems Design Europe. The main focus of this month’s edition is lighting. It seems strange to be talking about lighting when I write this, as I’m based in Scotland, where the summer days are long and lighting is hardly ever required. But it is a still a very re

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Date:

09/01/2025

Built for Chemistry: Why Advanced Batteries Need Smarter, High-Voltage BMS Solutions

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Figure 1: A robotic lawnmower cuts grass on a green lawn with sunlight shining through the grass blades

Built for Chemistry: Why Advanced Batteries Need Smarter, High-Voltage BMS Solutions

Tom Harvey, Chief Architect of BMS at Qorvo

The next wave of battery innovation is unfolding across a broader range of applications, from e-bikes and lawn equipment to solar-powered RVs, marine systems, and autonomous machines. These categories are rapidly adopting electrification, driven by the growing use of advanced battery chemistries such as lithium ir

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Date:

09/01/2025

Integrated E-Drives Redefined - Hollow-Conductor Cooling Meets Scalable SiC Inverter Technology

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Figure 1: CXT-ICM3S Series – a highly integrated combination of 3-phase power module, gate drivers and control logic.)

Integrated E-Drives Redefined - Hollow-Conductor Cooling Meets Scalable SiC Inverter Technology

Benjamin Hengstler, Co-founder & Chief Software Officer at Hyperdrives, CISSOID

Whether accelerating a sports sedan with exhilarating torque or enabling quiet, emission-free flight, motors and their accompanying inverters must deliver hundreds of kilowatts of reliable, compact, and efficient power. However, the markets for these applications face fierce competition, constant cost pressures, an

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Date:

09/01/2025

Rethinking Power Delivery for the AI Era

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Figure 1: LPD moves current through one layer from the board’s edge to its center

Rethinking Power Delivery for the AI Era

Mukund Krishna, Senior Manager Product Marketing, Empower Semiconductor

Each generation of accelerators, whether GPUs, AI engines, or XPUs, consumes more power than the last, pushing the limits of what engineers have designed server architectures to support. In fact, a single inference request to a generative model today consumes ten times more energy than a conventional web search. Mu

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Date:

09/01/2025

Setting Up a Single Pair Ethernet System with Power Over Data Lines

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Setting Up a Single Pair Ethernet System with Power Over Data Lines

Dr.-Ing. Heinz Zenkner, Würth Elektronik

In industrial applications, Single Pair Ethernet already promises significant simplification in the cabling of factories. If the connected devices are also supplied with power via the same two-wire cable, this is all the true, as a reference design from Würth Elektronik shows. Single-pair Ethernet (SPE) is

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Date:

09/01/2025

Evolving Tools for Motor Drive Development

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Figure 1: NEVB-MTR1-KIT1 modular 2-board structure

Evolving Tools for Motor Drive Development

Stein Nesbakk, and Aanas Sayed, Nexperia

Motor-driven products play an increasingly important role across industries and consumer markets. From electric scooters and forklifts to robotics, power tools, and smart home appliances, electric motors have become foundational components in today’s engineered systems. The evolution of these products has i

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Date:

09/01/2025

The Benefits of LED Lighting in Agriculture

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Figure 1: Comparison of avian and human phototropic response

The Benefits of LED Lighting in Agriculture

Recom Power Technical Marketing Team

LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting is gaining popularity in the field of agriculture, especially in animal husbandry, greenhouses, and indoor farming, where it provides several benefits over traditional lighting methods such as being maintenance-free and having a higher energy efficiency—LEDs convert more th

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Date:

09/01/2025

Basics of TFT LCD, OLED, and Micro-LED Display

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Figure 1: TFT LCD display structure

Basics of TFT LCD, OLED, and Micro-LED Display

Yujie Bai, Senior Applications Engineer, Analog Devices

To enhance the cabin experience, modern vehicles feature multiple types of displays: the instrument cluster, the center information display (CID), heads-up display (HUD), passenger display, smart e-mirror display, side mirror display, and rear entertainment display. The instrument cluster provides the driver wi

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Date:

09/01/2025

Intelligent RGB LED Platforms for Automotive and Industrial Innovation

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Intelligent RGB LED Platforms for Automotive and Industrial Innovation

Stephan Menze, Head of Global Innovation Management at Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH

As embedded systems continue to evolve toward increased intelligence and connectivity, the role of LED technology has grown significantly. No longer just a source of light, LEDs are now integral components in human-machine interfaces, safety systems, and adaptive environments. From the automotive cabin to the

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Date:

09/01/2025

Bright Future: The Evolving LED Lighting and Controls Industry

Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America

Bright Future: The Evolving LED Lighting and Controls Industry

Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America

The LED lighting market continues its transformation into 2025. Once a niche alternative to traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting, the more-efficient, longer-life, lower-cost LED (light-emitting diodes) now dominates global lighting applications. The LED lighting and controls market is estimated to

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Date:

09/01/2025

Countering AI – Fighting Fire with Fire

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Countering AI – Fighting Fire with Fire

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Like all innovation that came before it, since the first industrial revolution – and arguably beforehand – artificial intelligence has the potential to augment human capabilities and scientific discovery, but if we’ve truly reached a tech singularity, past the point of no return, we could also be creating an

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Date:

09/01/2025

Solid-State Batteries Get Closer to Mass Manufacture

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Solid-State Batteries Get Closer to Mass Manufacture

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

I’ve been writing about solid-state batteries for a while now, both in this column and in my weekly blogs. The problem with battery technologies is that you are often writing about innovation that may not come to market for a number of years or even decades, if at all. Now, it seems that solid-state batteries ar

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Date:

09/01/2025

How to Protect Against Overvoltages in Analog Front Ends Using Over-The-Top Amplifiers

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Figure 1: A simplified representation of the internal structure (taken from ADA4098-1 as the latest generation)

How to Protect Against Overvoltages in Analog Front Ends Using Over-The-Top Amplifiers

Hakan Uenlue, Senior Field Applications Engineer, Analog Devices

The possibility of high voltages occurring is a constant concern in industrial applications. Finding ways of providing protection from them has always been and will continue to be an important task for developers. This design tip illustrates how developers can accomplish this by utilizing Over-The-Top® (OTT)&n

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Date:

09/01/2025

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