Tech Talk

June 2024

Mike Sandyck, Marketing Director of CISSIOD

PCIM News - Inverter Reference Design Ready for the Road

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

There are many types of electric vehicle on the road at the moment. However, the majority of these have been designed by high-volume manufacturers. These manufacturers have many resources on hand to build their new electric powertrains from the ground up. As they purchase large numbers of the latest pro

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Date:

06/26/2024

Microcapacitors made with engineered hafnium oxide/zirconium oxide films in 3D trench capacitor structures achieve record-high energy storage and power density, paving the way for on-chip energy storage.

Microcapacitors Could Power Chips of the Future

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

As we try to pack more transistors into smaller packages, delivering power across the chip becomes increasingly difficult. To get around this problem, researchers have been attempting to integrate energy storage directly onto the chips, which will potentially reduce losses. However, for on-chip storage

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Date:

06/22/2024

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

Buck-Boost Converters Get the Silent Treatment

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

A few months ago in this column, I talked to Frederik Dostal of Analog Devices about the Silent Switcher technology that was incorporated into the company’s range of buck converters. Recently, Analog Devices has added the LT8350S to its Silent Switcher portfolio. The significance of this product is that it

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Date:

06/06/2024