With the advent of Electric Vehicles and Internet of things the need for sophisticated power electronic design has increased. These new fields are constantly evolving the demands for high-power motor drives, energy efficient power supplies, wireless power transfer etc.
In this section we will design and test various power electronic projects for a wide variety of applications including EV, Solar, IoT, SMPS Power supplies, LED Drivers, Portable power supplies etc. The section also covers the latest power electronic news and articles to update the readers with latest technology trends.
A zero-crossing detector circuit is a useful application of an op-amp as a comparator. This electronic circuit precisely identifies when an AC waveform transitions through zero voltage, tracking the changes in the sine waveform from positive to negative or vice versa while it crosses zero voltage. It can also be used as a square wave generator. They have many…
To meet the rising demand of small footprint, easy to use drivers, Infineon Technologies has released a new generation single-channel EiceDRIVER X3 compact 1ED31xx isolated gate driver in DSO-8 300 mil package. The new device offers a separate sink and source output, accurate and stable timing, active shutdown for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET 0 V turn off in…
Almost all types of sensors and transducers convert real world parameters like light, temperature, weight etc into voltage values for our electronic systems to understand it. The variation in this voltage level will help us in analyzing/measuring the real world parameters, but in some applications like biomedical sensors this variation is very small (low-level signals) and…
TDKCorporation has introduced a new compact and efficient i7A series of 33A 500W rated non-isolated DC/DC converters in a 1/16th brick pinout package for industrial and battery-powered applications. These new converters come with an output adjustment of 3.3V to 24V and can accept a wide range input voltage of 18 to 60V. The devices can be used to derive additional high-power…
The latest addition to the VIPerPlus series, the VIPer31 compact high-voltage converter IC from STMicroelectronics enables robust power-converter solutions that deliver excellent reliability and meet energy-saving eco-design norms while saving bill-of-materials (BoM) costs.
VIPer31 is optimized for commonly used offline AC/DC…
Almost every Solar based system has a Battery associated with it which has to be charged from solar energy and then the energy from the battery will be used to drive the loads. There are multiple choices available for charging a lithium battery, we have also built a simple Lithium battery charging circuit previously. But to charge a battery with a solar panel, the most…
Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it has expanded its product portfolio to include a global distribution partnership with GLF Integrated Power, Inc. GLF Integrated Power provides breakthrough, ultra-efficient, ultra-small, silicon power control and protection integrated circuits (ICs) to the IoT, smart wearable, TWS earbuds, smart medical device, automotive, smartwatch…
UnitedSiC has launched four new devices under its UJ4C SiC FET series based on advanced Gen 4 technology. These 750V SiC FETs enable new performance levels, improve cost-effectiveness, heat efficiency, and design headroom. The new FETs are suitable to be used in high-growth power applications across automotive, industrial charging, telecom rectifiers, datacenter PFC, and DC-…
When it comes to working with power electronics, a DC-DC converter topology becomes very crucial for practical designs. There are mainly two types of major DC-DC conversion topologies available in power electronics, namely, the switching converter and the Linear converter.
Now from the law of conservation of energy, we know that energy cannot be…
With the aim to deliver enhanced power rail stabilization in space-constrained designs, Toshiba Electronics has released a series of low noise ultra-compact low dropout (LDO) voltage regulators with a high ripple rejection ratio. The new TCR3RM series comprises of 32 product variants that come in compact plastic DFN4C package and measures only 1.00 mm x 1.00 mm x 0.38…
STMicroelectronics has added a QML-V qualified 7A Point-of-Load (PoL) DC/DC converter to its portfolio of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated power products that deliver high power efficiency to satisfy the most demanding space applications.
The RHRPMPOL01 is a complete PoL converter, including an N-channel power MOSFET and…
The recently unveiled MAX17320 from Maxim Integrated is a high accuracy fuel gauge and protector IC for 2 to 4 series Lithium-ion (Li+) cells (2S-4S). Equipped with Maxim Integrated’s patented ModelGauge m5 EZ algorithm, the new fuel-gauge and protection circuit delivers 40% more accurate state-of-charge (SOC) readings than competitive ICs available in the market…
