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Texas Instruments’ 70W Motor Drivers Enable Rapid BLDC Motor Designs

Texas Instruments’ 70W Motor Drivers Enable Rapid BLDC Motor Designs

The two new units provide code-free, sensorless trapezoidal control or field-oriented control (FOC), saving months of design time.


News Sep 20, 2021 by Gary Elinoff
Henkel Develops Silicone-free Liquid Thermal Gap Filler with Excellent Dielectric Strength for High Voltage Applications

Henkel Develops Silicone-free Liquid Thermal Gap Filler with Excellent Dielectric Strength for High Voltage Applications

Henkel today announced the commercial launch of Bergquist Gap Filler TGF 3000SF, the latest in the company’s line of silicone-free thermal…


Littelfuse’s Optically-Isolated Gate Driver Needs No External Power Supply

Littelfuse’s Optically-Isolated Gate Driver Needs No External Power Supply

Designed to partner with external MOSFETs, the high-voltage device provides load turn-on speeds measured in tens of microseconds.


Silicon Designs Announces Immediate Availability of MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer Chips

Silicon Designs Announces Immediate Availability of MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer Chips

Silicon Designs, Inc., today announced that three of its industry best-selling industrial-grade surface mount MEMS capacitive accelerometer chip…


Transphorm Acquires AFSW GaN Wafer Fab in Japan

Transphorm Acquires AFSW GaN Wafer Fab in Japan

California semiconductor manufacturer Transphorm closed its acquisition of the high-volume AFSW wafer fab in Japan.


News Sep 17, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
AVX Launches New TCO Series High-Temperature, Automotive-Grade Polymer Chip Capacitors

AVX Launches New TCO Series High-Temperature, Automotive-Grade Polymer Chip Capacitors

TCO Series capacitors meet AEC-Q200 requirements, exhibit low DCL and a benign failure mode, and are ideal for use in low- and medium-power…


UK-Based Organizations Sign MoU for Prototype Solid-State Battery Development

UK-Based Organizations Sign MoU for Prototype Solid-State Battery Development

Seven organizations based in the UK come together to form a consortium focused on prototyping solid-state battery technology for automotive…


News Sep 15, 2021 by Stephanie Leonida
Würth Elektronik Extends its MagI³C-FDSM-36-V Family with a 12V Output Voltage Version

Würth Elektronik Extends its MagI³C-FDSM-36-V Family with a 12V Output Voltage Version

Power Modules Replace L78x Linear Regulators.


Unifrax to Build its First SiFAB Manufacturing Line in Indiana

Unifrax to Build its First SiFAB Manufacturing Line in Indiana

Unifrax announces plans to build its first silicon fiber anode material manufacturing line to provide more sustainable battery power.


News Sep 11, 2021 by Stephanie Leonida
Infineon and Panasonic to Collaborate on 650V Power GaN Development

Infineon and Panasonic to Collaborate on 650V Power GaN Development

The two companies agree to joint development of the next generation of their successful Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology.


Performing Battery Maintenance on Robotic Systems

Performing Battery Maintenance on Robotic Systems

Learn about the purposes and types of backup batteries.


70-W BLDC Motor Drivers from Texas Instruments Eliminate Months of Design Time with Code-free, Sensorless FOC and Trapezoidal control

70-W BLDC Motor Drivers from Texas Instruments Eliminate Months of Design Time with Code-free, Sensorless FOC and Trapezoidal control

Integrated real-time control enables engineers to spin BLDC motors in less than 10 minutes while making motor systems quieter and as much as 70%…


The FlaMe Project Looks to Target More Efficient Production of Power Modules

The FlaMe Project Looks to Target More Efficient Production of Power Modules

The Fraunhofer Institute of Silicon Technology (ISIT) in Germany has recently announced a new research project for designing and implementing…


EMC Components: TDK offers miniaturized, high performance thin-film common-mode filters for mobile devices

EMC Components: TDK offers miniaturized, high performance thin-film common-mode filters for mobile devices

TDK’s wide array of products meets the needs for common filters for high-speed differential signal lines, including for USB, MIPI and HDMI.


Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs: Turning Academic Dreams into an Industry Reality

Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs: Turning Academic Dreams into an Industry Reality

Gallium nitride (GaN) is the key enabler for high-frequency, and simultaneously high-efficiency topologies.


Panasonic Partnership Adds Over 75,000 New CAD Models to SnapEDA Platform

Panasonic Partnership Adds Over 75,000 New CAD Models to SnapEDA Platform

This move is aimed at helping engineers design better technologies.


Design Challenges and Solutions for Solar Inverters

Design Challenges and Solutions for Solar Inverters

Designers of solar inverters face a multidimensional challenge to ensure solar power continues to meet the growing demand for clean energy. This…


An Overview of Solar Emulator Design

An Overview of Solar Emulator Design

A solar emulator is a programmable power supply designed to emulate the characteristics of solar panels.


Combining Waveforms in a Power System to Cancel Harmonic Components

Combining Waveforms in a Power System to Cancel Harmonic Components

Harmonics can cause transformers to fail, motors to burn out, circuit breakers to trip (nuisance tripping), and neutral conductors and other parts…


ROHM’s Introduces a New EMARMOUR Op Amp Series

ROHM’s Introduces a New EMARMOUR Op Amp Series

Achieves breakthrough noise immunity, improving reliability and reducing design resources in anomaly detection systems.