20 Most-Read North American Product Announcements for 2016: 10-1
PowerPulse provides readers extensive coverage of new product and technology developments spanning the globe from Asia to Europe and North America. Coverage includes active and passive components, energy storage devices, power converters, and more. The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most-read Product News stories from North America on PowerPulse.Net for 2016, thus providing a window into the "pulse" of the trends and interests in the North American Power Electronics community.
#10: Reverse-blocking, pFET Integrated Power Controllers
Silego Technology announced an expansion of its pFET integrated power controller portfolio with a new family of self-powered, 1.6 mm², single-channel and dual-channel very low-power controllers with reverse-current protection. Designed for all high-side, 1.5V to 5.5V power rail applications, these new pFET power controllers achieve an ultra-stable 23mΩ RDSON over temperature. Using Silego's proprietary CuFET™ technology, these new products can handle load currents up to 4A and exhibit low thermal resistance. More.
#9: Medium-Power Planar Transformer handles up to 3kW
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new planar transformer offering power from 1kW to 3kW in a compact 70mm by 53mm by 22mm size. Compared to devices built on traditional winding technology, the Vishay Sfernice PLA51 delivers the same power transfer / conversion while offering higher efficiency and a lower weight and profile. More.
#8: Disruptive Inverter Technology to Lower Solar Energy Cost
Analog Devices, Inc. has introduced what is expected to be a disruptive addition to its power conversion platform with an innovative series of mixed-signal control processors. The ADSP-CM41x series is designed to dramatically simplify system design, lower cost, and improve efficiency and safety in solar, energy storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure. Solar panels and battery systems have become significantly less expensive in recent years, creating the need for inverter technologies to drive the next wave of efficiencies in solar energy. While disruptive new inverter designs have begun making improvements in size, weight, and cost reductions, they require further advances in digital processing to unlock their full potential. More.
#7: 20W Wireless Charging at 6.78MHz
NuVolta Technologies Inc. announced that it has developed industry's first 20W receiver IC based on its high efficiency Controlled Resonance wireless power architecture. The NU2500 power management IC can cover wireless power applications from 0.5W to 20W. In combination with the company's transmitter IC NU1000, NuVolta provides complete fast wireless charging solutions for smart watches, smart phones, tablets and notebook computers at very high efficiency. More.
Wolfspeed, a Cree Company and a leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power products, has introduced a 1000V MOSFET that enables a reduction in overall system cost, while improving system efficiency and decreasing system size. The new MOSFET, specially optimized for fast charging and industrial power supplies, enables a 30 percent reduction in component count while achieving more than 3x increase in power density and a 33 percent increase in output power. More.
#5: High-Voltage 5-A Integrated Power Controllers
Silego Technology announced an expansion of its state-of-the-art integrated power controller portfolio with a new family of high-performance, high-voltage integrated power controllers. Designed for all high-side, 4.5-V to 24-V power rail applications and using Silego's proprietary MOSFET design IP, this new family of power controllers achieves ultra-stable 13.3mΩ Rds(on) across a wide input/supply voltage range and over temperature. Using Silego's proprietary CuFET™ technology, these new products require only a 4.8mm² footprint and exhibit low thermal resistance for high-current operation. More.
#4: 80V Half-Bridge 33MHz GaN FET Driver
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. claims the world's fastest gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistor (FET) driver, the UltraCMOS® PE29100. Built on Peregrine's UltraCMOS technology, this new GaN driver empowers design engineers to extract the full performance and speed advantages from GaN transistors. Designed to drive the gates of a high-side and a low-side GaN FET in a switching configuration, the PE29100 claiims the industry's fastest switching speeds, shortest propagation delays and lowest rise and fall times to ac-dc converters, dc-dc converters, class D audio amplifiers and wireless charging applications. More.
#3: Low-Power Wireless Solutions for Rapid IoT Deployment
ON Semiconductor has announced two major strategic developments to enable rapid deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Working in conjunction with SIGFOX, the world's leading provider of dedicated connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), ON Semiconductor has confirmed that its AX-SFEU system-on-chip (SoC) is now fully SIGFOX Readyâ„¢ certified for optimal two-way communication in Europe with certification underway for the US. More.
#2: Low-Profile, High-Current Power Inductors
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced that it has extended its IHHP series of low-profile, high-current power inductors with two new devices in the compact 3mm by 3mm 1212 case size. Offering a wide range of inductance values from 0.33µH to 10µH and low profiles of 0.8mm and 1.0mm, respectively, the Vishay Dale IHHP-1212ZH-01 and IHHP-1212AZ-01 are designed to save space and increase efficiency in portable electronics. More.
#1: "Digitally-Wrapped" Adaptive Multi-Rail Power with Telemetry
AnDAPTâ„¢, has emerged from "stealth mode" and today announced AmPâ„¢ Adaptive Multi-Rail Power Platform family, a new genre of analog power management technology heralding an innovative user paradigm for "On-Demand Power Management," and taking analog power designs to a new level of flexibility. Users can now, on-demand, select and integrate application targeted, proven Power Components onto an AmP Platform. More.
