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Nexperia Announces LED Drivers in DFN Packages with Side-Wettable Flanks

Nexperia Announces LED Drivers in DFN Packages with Side-Wettable Flanks

The AEC-Q101-qualified devices save up to 90% PCB space and improve reliability.


Surge Current Testing

Surge Current Testing

This article highlights GvA Leistungselektronik latest joint development that is a test stand for surge current tests up to 35kA for the IPH…


Earth Leakage Current in a Bi-Directional Totem Pole Converter Using Wide Band Gap Devices

Earth Leakage Current in a Bi-Directional Totem Pole Converter Using Wide Band Gap Devices

This article explains the generation mechanism of this leakage current along with its path through appropriate circuit diagrams.


Microchip Releases Newest Generation of AEC-Q101 Qualified 700 and 1200V Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Barrier Diode

Microchip Releases Newest Generation of AEC-Q101 Qualified 700 and 1200V Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Barrier Diode

Microchip releases new generation of Silicon Carbide Schottky Barrier Diode for Automotive Applications.


GaN Systems Details the Reliability of Gallium Nitride Transistors

GaN Systems Details the Reliability of Gallium Nitride Transistors

GaN Systems’ New study illustrates how Gallium Nitride (GaN) stacks up against classical MOSFETs in real-world situations.


News Oct 28, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Researchers Develop an Electrode Material for Potential Use in Electric Vehicles

Researchers Develop an Electrode Material for Potential Use in Electric Vehicles

Researchers from China use a composite of black phosphorus and graphite to create an anode material for more stable, efficient, fast charging…


News Oct 28, 2020 by Stephanie Leonida
Tektronix Launches 1100V Parametric Testing System For Wide Bandgap Technologies in Automotive Applications

Tektronix Launches 1100V Parametric Testing System For Wide Bandgap Technologies in Automotive Applications

Tektronix’s new testing platform targets gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) based devices to design for fast switching, wide…


STMicroelectronics Acquires French Fabless Semiconductor Company SOMOS

STMicroelectronics Acquires French Fabless Semiconductor Company SOMOS

Power electronics company STMicroelectronics is acquiring France-based SOMOS Semiconductor, a power amplifier and RF specialist.


News Oct 27, 2020 by Shannon Cuthrell
CUI’s Ultra-Thin, Low Profile, 3 Watt DC-DC Converters Ideal for Portable Electronics

CUI’s Ultra-Thin, Low Profile, 3 Watt DC-DC Converters Ideal for Portable Electronics

The PYBJ3 series of isolated dc-dc converters are suitable for use in convection-cooled equipment and applications, including microcontrollers,…


Powerbox Announces High Efficiency 750V DC/DC Converter

Powerbox Announces High Efficiency 750V DC/DC Converter

This article highlights powerbox PRBX ENR500D that is based on an enhanced resonant topology providing a high efficiency of 95% typical across the…


Reducing Noise in an SMPS Through Layout and Filtering

Reducing Noise in an SMPS Through Layout and Filtering

Explore the concept of noise in a SMPS circuit that designers typically focus on mitigating, including ripple and EMI, and learn some basic layout…


RECOM’s Switching Regulator Series Offered with 12V Option

RECOM’s Switching Regulator Series Offered with 12V Option

RECOM Power has extended it’s highly efficient and economical R-78E series of switching regulators to include a 12V option compatible with TO-220…


ALD’s Specialty Module Aimed at Protecting Ultra-Low-Voltage Designs from Overvoltage Damage

ALD’s Specialty Module Aimed at Protecting Ultra-Low-Voltage Designs from Overvoltage Damage

Advanced Linear Devices’ SABMBOVP family of voltage clamps are designed for systems of 5 volts or less.


Skeleton’s High-Energy Ultracapacitor Modules to Power Wrightbus Vehicles

Skeleton’s High-Energy Ultracapacitor Modules to Power Wrightbus Vehicles

Wrightbus and Skeleton Technologies join forces to encourage wide scale adoption of fuel-cell electric buses with Skeleton’s ultracapacitor…


News Oct 26, 2020 by Stephanie Leonida
GaN Systems Introduces Next-Gen Automotive-Qualified Transistors

GaN Systems Introduces Next-Gen Automotive-Qualified Transistors

GaN Systems' GS-065-060-5-T-A is designed to meet automotive reliability standards including AEC-Q101 qualifications.


Operating Flying-Capacitor Boosters

Operating Flying-Capacitor Boosters

This article describes the operation and behavior of the three-level flying-capacitor booster.


TI Introduces Low-Noise Buck Converters with Integrated Ferrite-Bead Compensation

TI Introduces Low-Noise Buck Converters with Integrated Ferrite-Bead Compensation

Engineers can achieve high-efficiency operation for noise-sensitive applications with TI’s low-noise, low-ripple buck converters 


Renesas’ New Buck-Boost DC/DC Converter Offers Ultra-Low Quiescent Current

Renesas’ New Buck-Boost DC/DC Converter Offers Ultra-Low Quiescent Current

The ISL9122A is a power-saving solution aimed at wearables, energy harvesting and battery-operated IoT devices


Maxim Introduces an Automotive 4-Channel TFT-LCD Power Supply

Maxim Introduces an Automotive 4-Channel TFT-LCD Power Supply

This article highlights Maxim Integrated MAX25222 4-channel TFT-LCD power IC that provides symmetrical positive AVDD and negative NAVDD supplies.


TDK Develops Miniaturized, High-Performance Automotive Power Inductors

TDK Develops Miniaturized, High-Performance Automotive Power Inductors

TDK developed new power inductors, BCL322515RT, for use in automotive electronics, intended for insertion into the power line of an automobile…