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Emmanuel Onyema, Product Line Manager, Skyworks

PCIM - Upgrade for Popular Isolation Family

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Skyworks launched its Si86x family of capacitive isolators over ten years ago. It has proven popular with engineers over that time and the products are still selling well, but changes in demands from the industry have meant that newer solutions are required to fulfil them. Emmanuel Onyem

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Date:

07/25/2024

Wolfspeed's three-phase SpeedVal Modular Evaluation Kit for electrical motor drive design

PCIM News - Speeding SiC Designs to Market

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

SiC MOSFETs are superior to IGBTs in many ways. They are more efficient, they are tougher, they have much better thermal resistance, and they enable smaller designs. However, care needs to be taken when incorporating SiC MOSFETs in a design as the gate drive and circuit parasitics of the board be

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Date:

07/18/2024

Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert, Power Management at Analog Devices

Lights Out For Optocouplers

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Optocouplers are devices which have traditionally been heavily used in power systems. They allow a feedback signal to be fed from the output of the circuit to a controller that dynamically adjusts the circuit for better regulation. Optocouplers provide isolation by turning the electrical signal into a

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Date:

07/12/2024

An exhibitor demonstrates products at PCIM 2024

PCIM News – Microchip, PI and Nexperia

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

According to the organizers, this year PCIM had 637 exhibitors, a record number, with 60% coming from outside Germany. In total, over 18,000 visitors attended the exhibition. Nexperia As expected, the most popular vertical market at the exhibition was the automotive one. There

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Date:

07/03/2024