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.
Two new voltage translators namely PI4ULS5V108Q and PI4ULS5V02Q have been introduced by Diodes Incorporated for flexible and high-speed operation in automotive applications. These devices are suitable for environments with ambient temperatures up to 125°C and are designed for usages in Advance Driver Assistance System (ADAS), infotainment and telematics equipment.
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Designers can further reduce power consumption and solution size, while improving measurement accuracy, with three new industry-leading analog products from Maxim Integrated. The MAX6078A voltage reference IC, the MAX16155 nanoPower supervisor and the MAX16160 voltage monitor and reset IC achieve best-in-class performance for cloud infrastructure, IoT, intelligence-at-the-…
Diodes Incorporated has announced the introduction of five (AP64350, AP64351, AP64352, AP64500, and AP64501) synchronous buck converters with integrated high and low side MOSFETs providing point of load (PoL) solution with a continuous current of either 3.5A or 5A. The device features a proprietary gate driver technology, which delivers superior EMI performance in Step-down…
Infineon Technologies has introduced two new devices CoolGaN 400V and CoolGaN 600V, to its portfolio of CoolGan devices. The CoolGan 400V device (IGT40R070D1E8200) is designed for premium HiFi audio systems where end-users demand every detail of their high-resolution soundtrack, which has been conventionally addressed by bulky linear or tube amplifiers. By using CoolGan 400V…
Diodes Incorporated has announced a new switching IC called AP22913, a 2A single-channel slew rate controlled load switch (MOSFET) with true reverse current blocking (TRCB) for high side load switching applications. It provides an effective way of applying or removing power to a load, especially the USB peripherals.
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Many of us who have worked with Analog circuits would have often come across the terms voltage source and current source in a circuit design. While anything that provides a constant voltage like a simple 5V USB output or a 12V adapter can be considered as a voltage source, the term current source always seems to remain a mystery. And many circuits, especially the one…
Nearly 4.18 trillion kWh of electricity were generated in the United States at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in 2018, and around 17% was generated from renewable sources. The statistics recently published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration state that approximately 67 billion kWh of the total electricity generated in the country last year were…
Alpha and Omega Semiconductors have introduced the AOZ8621UNI, a series of Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) for VBUS protection using the latest high surge TVS platform. They are ideal for USB Type-C Power Delivery, including but not limited to laptops and Smartphones. The AOZ8621UNI series is housed in a DFN 2x2 package and offers a wide working …
A mixer is a special type of electronic circuit that combines two signals (periodically repeating waveforms). Mixers find a lot of use in audio and RF systems and rarely used as simple analog ‘computers’. There are two types of Analog Audio Mixers - Additive Mixers and Multiplicative Mixers.
1. Additive Mixers
Like their name suggests, additive mixers simply add…
Designing an efficient Power Supply circuit is not less of a challenge. Those who have already worked with SMPS circuits would easily agree that the flyback transformer design plays a vital role in designing an efficient power supply circuit. Most times these transformers are not available off the shelf in the exact same parameter that suits our design. So in this…
The Texas Instruments has introduced a family of four high efficiency, low quotient current (IQ) buck boost converter that is designed with tiny spacing with minimal external component for a compact solution size. The integrated TPS63802, TPS63805, TPS63806 and TPS63810 DC/DC noninverting buck-boost converters offer a wide 1.3V to 5.5V input and 1.8V to 5.2V output voltage…
Whether it’s your Laptop, TV, Smartphone, or any other electronic device, they all operates at different voltages. These devices have sensitive components like Microprocessors, ICs, etc. that works on very low voltage, and even the slightest change in voltage can damage these components. These sensitive components require a steady and stable voltage to operate optimally. So…
