Tech Talk
July 2025
Ryan Manack, Vice President of Systems, Applications and Marketing at iDEAL Semiconductor
Mark Twain has been rumoured to have once said that “rumours of his death have been greatly exaggerated". The same could be said for silicon in power designs. For almost a decade now, proponents of GaN and SiC technologies have been telling us that it is only a matter of time until
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Date:
07/29/2025
Hannan Abdul, Senior Product Manager, Infineon
Auxiliary power supplies are popular designs that are used in many consumer and industrial applications. There are many products that require mains power to run a motor or other device, but also need much lower voltages to run the control systems and other low power circuits. It is difficult to drop fro
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Date:
07/24/2025
Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert for Power Management, Analog Devices
One of the most difficult aspects of power design is judging how the circuit will react to different loads, especially in terms of the power supply control loop stability and bandwidth. How quickly will the voltage change from one level to another as a load is connected and disconnected? Will it overs
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Date:
07/14/2025
Dr. Adam Barkley, VP of Power Technology Development at Wolfspeed, talks to Alistair Winning from PSD about advantages of the company's Gen 4 SiC devices
RDS(on) is perhaps usually the most important metric that is highlighted by companies when they talk about their wide bandgap products. Other figures of merit are also important, but every manufacturer that I can think of specifically highlights low RDS(on) as a major plus point. And that’s no real
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Date:
07/01/2025
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