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Solid-State Isolators to Deliver Faster Switching with up to 70 percent Lower Power Dissipation

Infineon’s family of solid-state isolator drivers use coreless transformer technology to achieve faster and more reliable switching.

Infineon Technologies AG introduced a new product family of Solid-State Isolators (iSSI) to achieve faster and more reliable circuit switching with protection features not available in optical-based solid state relays (SSR). iSSI use coreless transformer technology and support 20 times greater energy transfer wi
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Date:
03/08/2024
Analog Devices' GaN Driver Enables Robust and Reliable Control of GaN FETs

Analog Devices' GaN Driver Enables Robust and Reliable Control of GaN FETs

­Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) now offers a 100V half-bridge GaN driver that simplifies the implementation of GaN FETs, proving robust gate control, high frequency switching, and increased system efficiency. Integrating top and bottom driver stages, driver logic control, and protections, the new LT8418 can be
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Date:
03/08/2024
Murata Launches Three Power Systems, Electrifying the Semiconductor Landscape

Stephen Allen, VP of power, pSemi Corporation, a Murata Company

­Murata announced the launch of three new power product solutions designed to help solve the challenges, constraints, and limitations of the power electronics industry. These include the PE25208, a revolutionary ultra-high efficiency charge pump IC aimed to fuel the future of portable consumer electronics, in
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Date:
03/08/2024
Conduction-Cooled PSU, Slim 300W Fan-less Rugged 7.43

Conduction-Cooled PSU, Slim 300W Fan-less Rugged 7.43" x 4.6" x 1" DC/DC

­Vox Power Ltd proudly unveils the VCCR300 Conduction Cooled Power Series, a robust rugged and highly reliable DC/DC power supply capable of silently delivering 300 Watts of power. Its compact size measuring only 7.43 x 4.6 inches with an unrivalled 1-inch low profile, ensures easy integration in virtually any
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Date:
03/08/2024
Infineon Enhances the TRAVEO T2G MCU Family with Qt Group Graphics Solution to Enable Intelligent Rendering Technologies

Infineon collaborates with Qt Group to bring high-performance graphics framework to TRAVEO™ T2G cluster microcontrollers for a faster time-to-market and improved graphical displays.

­In the highly competitive global semiconductor market, manufacturers are constantly striving for shorter time-to-market. At the same time, the demand for fluid and high-resolution graphical displays is increasing. To address these market demands, Infineon Technologies AG announces its strategic collaboration wi
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Date:
03/04/2024
An Artificial Invasion

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

­The world is buzzing over the capabilities, potential, and in some cases, legal implications, of artificial intelligence, and for good reason. In a very real sense, this feels like the hype that preceded the very first personal computers, before they became an inseparable part of the human experience. Like late ‘80s/early
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Date:
03/01/2024
Getting Power Supplies Right

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

­Welcome to the March edition of Power Systems Design Europe. The longer days and brighter weather always gives me a lift at this time of year after what has been a long winter. It is looking like an exciting year for the industry and there will be lots of innovative new products coming to market if the quality o
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Date:
03/01/2024
ACF in a GaN World

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Figure 1. Traditional QR flyback converter with protective RCD clamp

­Flyback topologies are often chosen for AC/DC conversion in low- to medium-power applications such as USB adapters and battery chargers. Among their inherent strengths, the transformer-based design provides galvanic isolation and facilitates a wide input voltage range. Moreover, the simplicity of the topology and
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Date:
03/01/2024
Maximizing Yield and Performance of Power Devices by Deep Learning

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Figure 1. Visualization of a FIB-SEM tomography datasets obtained from a SiC MOSFET samples. The top image shows the full volume, while the bottom one presents the same dataset with a cuboid of approximately one third of the volume cut away....

­Silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs have become predominantly used in power semiconductors, particularly for automotive applications. To support process development, improve manufacturing yield, and reduce sub-surface failures in finished products, engineers must understand the structure, dopant and junction profiles, an
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Date:
03/01/2024
Optimising Distributed Power Architectures with Programmable PoL Converter Current Limits

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Figure 1: A typical distributed power architecture using an intermediate bus and point of load converters, here the load is a Xilinx SoC device

­Even while accounting for DC power distribution, the disparity between input and output voltages gets larger, with supply rails often subject to wide variations, while the outputs, sometimes down to around 1V, must be ever-more accurate and disturbance-free. Power conversion in a single stage with isolation
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Date:
03/01/2024
Analysis of SMPS and Rectification: Inductor Violations

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Figure 1. Simplified buck converter power stage

­Every SMPS works by storing energy in an inductor and utilizing pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques to obtain the desired output. The guiding principle of these converters is the volt second balance law, which dictates that when operating in a steady state, over one period the average current of an inductor mu
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Date:
03/01/2024
Design Considerations for Medical Power Supplies

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Figure 1: A typical risk management process according to ISO 14971

­Medical equipment design is highly regulated, with safety being the main concern. However, the standards must cover a very wide range of equipment types and use environments, from battery-powered monitors to scanners consuming multiple kW and from operating theatres to analysis labs and ‘point of care’ se
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Date:
03/01/2024
Power Supplies – Still Better to Buy

Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America

­The merchant power supply market, valued at USD 35.78 billion in 2022, is projected to reach USD 50.22 Billion by 2030 – a CAGR of 5.13 percent. The merchant power supply market refers to the industry that produces devices and systems responsible for providing electrical power to electronic devices and sys
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Date:
03/01/2024
Switching Regulator Noise Reduction with an LC Filter

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Figure 1. Buck regulator to power noise sensitive loads with an LC filter on the output

Different filtering techniques can be used to reduce the noise of a switching regulator. One that works especially well is an LC filter with an inductor in series with the power flow and a capacitor from the filtered voltage to ground. This type of LC filter creates a double pole in the frequency domain. Dependi
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Date:
03/01/2024

 


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