Technical Features

June 2024

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Figure 1: MOSFET channel punch-through showing outputs from previous SPICE simulators vs. QSPICE

QSPICE: A Mission to Get SPICE Right

Siddharth Mohan, design engineer, Qorvo

Qorvo’s QSPICE™ simulator for analog and mixed-signal simulation provides power designers with the tools to confidently evaluate their designs. Free to use, QSPICE improves SPICE basics, supports large amounts of digital logic without performance penalties, and delivers the speed and accuracy needed for rel

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Date:

11/29/2024

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Figure 1: StrongIRFET™ and OptiMOS™ power MOSFET portfolio

StrongIRFET™ 2 Power MOSFETs in 30 V are Ready for Future Applications

By: He Dingyi, Technical Marketing and Application Engineer, Infineon Technologies

The rapidly evolving world of electronics fuels the need for more efficient, powerful, and compact components. This drive for innovation extends to silicon power MOSFETs, where substantial efforts are dedicated to enhancing capabilities for a wide range of power electronic applications, including drives, switched

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Date:

06/28/2024

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Figure 1: Block diagram of a Modular six-phase Fault Tolerant drive

A Modular Fault-Tolerant Multiphase Drive

Andrea Spampinato, Gianluigi Forte, STMicroelectronics

Safety and reliability can be achieved if the electrical drive can identify and manage the fault, in the fastest way possible, ensuring the safe operations. Multiphase motor drives, like the system described in this article, can sustain multiple fault events maintaining performance comparable with normal conditions. This article d

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1: Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality, Casper Jones, 2008

Automatic Motor Control Tests Reduce Costs and Minimize Risk

Tommy Jacob, MOTEON GmbH

Quality assurance stands as a pivotal aspect of software and hardware development, especially when it comes to embedded motor control applications. However, testing to ensure automotive quality tends to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, frequently sidelined in practice. As a result, critical errors are of

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1 - Cobots offer a vast potential to improve the efficiency of industrial processes

Rise of the Cobots

Fabrizio Petris, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager at Omron Electronic Components Europe B.V.

Robots are nothing new. Indeed, the first industrial robot was first developed some 70 years ago in 1954 for the automotive industry. The increasing adoption of robots promises vast potential benefits to productivity and efficiency not just in manufacturing but across a wide range of industries. However, a major i

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1: The key difference between AGVs and AMRs

Transitioning from Conventional AGVs to More Autonomous Alternatives

Juhani Pelttari, Senior Manager, Business Development, Murata

Through increased levels of automation, not only can the expense of having human operatives conduct laborious tasks be avoided, but numerous other benefits may also be derived - with facilities able to run round the clock, the elimination of costly errors, and greater safety being among them. Furthermore, staff ca

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1: Faction Delivery Vehicles rely on Point One Navigation’s RTK Correction services to know where they are and where they are going

The Real Benefits of RTK for Engineers

Mark Wilkerson, Product Manager at Point One Navigation

In today’s engineering tasks, location precision is more critical than ever — particularly when it comes to accurately measuring geospatial positioning. From construction and farming to building and operating autonomous vehicles, pinpoint accuracy is critical for safety and efficiency. Whether using drones to

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1: DC-DC converter architectures

Avoiding Pitfalls in Unregulated Intermediate Bus Converters

Phil Goff, Flex Power Modules

The demand for data centers continues to grow at a remarkable pace – with AI the latest boom. While the energy efficiency of computing hardware is steadily improving, the electricity used by data centers is forecast to double by 2026. This means that there is increasing pressure on power supply systems to im

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1: This graph illustrates how reduced inductance impacts capacitor performance

Advances in Capacitors for Logic-Level to Medium-Power Applications

Ron Demcko, Senior Fellow, KYOCERA AVX

Semiconductors aren’t the only components that made significant strides in recent years. Capacitors — including multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), tantalum polymer capacitors, and supercapacitors — have also made impressive and impactful improvements that can greatly affect power delivery and conversion as

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Date:

06/01/2024

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Figure 1. The edge data center landscape (HIRO 2023)

Defining the Future of Edge Computing Using Micro Data Centers

Fred Buining, CEO of HIRO-MicroDataCenters

Edge computing refers to the production and consumption of data at the edge of the internet. There, engineers are busy connecting groups of things, and even complete network environments, and equipping them with sensing, data and AI-processing capabilities. Data flows across the entire network landscape and Ed

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Date:

06/01/2024