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Littelfuse High-Speed Fuses Protect Battery Storage System

Littelfuse High-Speed Fuses Protect Battery Storage System

The PSX series of high-speed fuses from Littelfuse respond quickly to high-voltage faults, providing circuit protection for battery energy storage…


new products Apr 01, 2024 by Mike Falter
Coreless Transformers Improve Solid-State Isolator Response

Coreless Transformers Improve Solid-State Isolator Response

Infineon’s family of solid-state isolators features a coreless transformer capable of delivering faster and more reliable switching and…


new products Feb 28, 2024 by Mike Falter
TDK’s Single-Phase EMI Filters Target Conducted Emissions

TDK’s Single-Phase EMI Filters Target Conducted Emissions

The filters have insertion losses of 80 dB in differential mode and leakage currents below 2 mA. This article will review EMI on power lines, the…


new products Feb 10, 2024 by Jake Hertz
10 Highlights From the EEPower/Bodo’s Alliance

10 Highlights From the EEPower/Bodo’s Alliance

From inductor circuits to SiC and GaN to Moore’s Law, check out these must-reads from EEPower’s exclusive partnership with Bodo’s Power Systems.


Unraveling Passive Components: A Deep Dive Into Resistors, Inductors, and Capacitors

Unraveling Passive Components: A Deep Dive Into Resistors, Inductors, and Capacitors

Passive components, including resistors, inductors, and capacitors, play essential roles in circuits, influencing current flow, storing energy, and…


Advances in High-Current Capacitor Technology With Film Capacitors

Advances in High-Current Capacitor Technology With Film Capacitors

The film capacitor series from Electrocube is designed for high-power inverter applications in military deployments.


new products Nov 19, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Low-Profile Passive Components Push Boundaries

Low-Profile Passive Components Push Boundaries

Ultra-low-profile inductors and capacitors from Murata and TDK are pushing the limits for component density and impacting automotive safety and…


new products Nov 11, 2023 by Mike Falter
Silicon Carbide Diodes Increase Application Power Densities

Silicon Carbide Diodes Increase Application Power Densities

Bourns is adding ten new silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky barrier diode (SBD) models to its product family to address increasing power density…


new products Oct 21, 2023 by Mike Falter
NEC Basics: Grounding and Bonding DC Systems Supplying Premises

NEC Basics: Grounding and Bonding DC Systems Supplying Premises

Learn whether or not you should connect a direct current power supply to the ground.


New Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors Simplify the Nuances of Design

New Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors Simplify the Nuances of Design

While passives are often overlooked components, innovations in resistors, capacitors, and inductors – like the ones in this roundup – can make…


New Power Components for Automotive Applications Hit the Market

New Power Components for Automotive Applications Hit the Market

This article will examine recent news in the automotive component industry to see how companies are addressing the need for automotive-qualified…


new products Jul 23, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Calculating RC Low-Pass Filter Cut-Off Frequency and Transfer Function

Calculating RC Low-Pass Filter Cut-Off Frequency and Transfer Function

Learn how to determine the RC low-pass filter's cut-off frequency and transfer function and plot the gain/frequency and phase/frequency…


Memory Inductors for Energy-Efficient Applications

Memory Inductors for Energy-Efficient Applications

The advanced series of WE-MAPI inductors combine the best possible utilization of inductance and current carrying capacity with low intrinsic…


Back to Capacitor Basics

Back to Capacitor Basics

This article highlights the critical characteristics of capacitors and some of their use cases, explains the different types available, the…


10 Tips for Designing With High-voltage Resistors

10 Tips for Designing With High-voltage Resistors

Optimized strategies prioritize the definition and testing of key components early in the design cycle. High-voltage resistors are one such…


Sense Resistor Basics

Sense Resistor Basics

Measuring the electrical current flowing through a circuit can be done using various techniques. One of the simplest and most common ways is to use…


Beyond MLCCs: The Rise of the Silicon Capacitor

Beyond MLCCs: The Rise of the Silicon Capacitor

Passive components remain a crucial element in power hungry and data-intensive applications. And, as the end of the Moore’s Law journey for…


Designing Electronics to Pass the EMC Test Part 4

Designing Electronics to Pass the EMC Test Part 4

Simulating and evaluating the conductive emission using LTSpice.


Passive Day Cooling Tech Promising for Building Temp Regulation

Passive Day Cooling Tech Promising for Building Temp Regulation

Researchers develop an indoor test setup for determining the daytime cooling performance of passive cooling materials.


News Aug 09, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Diodes Incorporated Debuts New Bidirectional Current Monitors

Diodes Incorporated Debuts New Bidirectional Current Monitors

The fresh series is designed to measure particularly low-sense voltages, enabling inexpensive, low-value shunt resistors to monitor large currents.