A few months ago, I talked with Microchip at the launch of the company’s IGBT7 products. The IGBT7 range was introduced to penetrate the general market, after the company had previously focused mainly on niche markets, such as military and aerospace, for its high-power products. To continue that expan
Battery management systems (BMS) are important parts of almost every battery powered application. They are used to control the charging and discharging cycles and ensure each cell is safe and performs as expected. It is not always possible to test the BMS with real batteries, mainly due to the safety
This column has focused many times on the upcoming challenges for data centres, whether that is meeting the data centre’s needs for power in the first instance, or for taking that power and converting it to feed the computing racks, but those two issues are not the only ones – taking the power supplied to
