power electronics

Power Management ICs Drive Optimized Power for Automotive ADAS Functions Maxim Power Management ICs Drive Optimized Power for Automotive ADAS Functions

Power-management ICs offer high performance, small size, efficiency, and protection needed by advanced auto subsystems

With a series of power management ICs (PMICs) from Maxim Integrated, designers can optimize power for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) functions to achieve high performance, small size, efficiency, and electrical protection.

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3.7V to 5V Boost Converter Circuit using MC34063 3.7V to 5V Boost Converter Circuit using MC34063

In modern days, Lithium batteries are enriching the electronics world. They can be charged very fast and provide good backup, which along with their low manufacturing cost makes lithium batteries the most preferable choice for portable devices. As a single cell lithium battery voltage range from minimum 3.2 voltage to 4.2V, it’s difficult to power those…

STUSB4500 Standalone USB Type-C and Power-Delivery controller Standalone USB Type-C Power Delivery Controller For Fast and Easy Migration to Type-C

STMicroelectronics develops STUSB4500, a standalone USB Type-C and Power-Delivery controller to aim an easy migration to Type-C USB interfaces in a wide range of consumer, industrial, and medical products. It is a certified standalone USB power-delivery controller optimized for sink-only applications powered through a USB-C cable and can easily be customized by the end-…

5 Watt AC/DC Modules for Wide Mains Voltages up to 480VAC 5 Watt AC/DC Modules for Wide Mains Voltages up to 480VAC

RECOM released its RAC05-K/480 series 5W AC/DC converters which accept input voltages of up to 480VAC. OVC-III rated with a 6kV surge protection, they operate reliably at industrial temperature ranges and a good fit for housekeeping operations in Industry 4.0, smart automation applications, smart grid, renewable energy, smart metering, and IoT applications that require low…

Crowbar Circuit Crowbar Circuit

The reliability of any electronic device depends on how well the hardware protection circuits have been designed. The end user (consumer) is prone to make mistakes and it is the responsibility of a good hardware designer to protect his hardware from any mishappening. There are ample types of protection circuits each with its own specific applications. The most common type of…

Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

Most of the consumer electronic devices around us, such as mobile phones, TVs, Radios, and MP3 players, are a combination of Digital and Analogue electronics. Wherever wireless transmission/reception, or audio signals are involved in an electronic design, we will need periodic oscillating electronic signals. These signals are called Oscillating signals and are very useful in…

Toshiba Develops“CUHS10F60” Low Reverse-Current Schottky Diode with Low Thermal Resistance Low Reverse-Current Schottky Diode with Improved Thermal Performance

Toshiba develops a new Schottky barrier diode product “CUHS10F60” targeted at applications such as rectification and backflow prevention in power supply circuits. It features a low thermal resistance of 105°C/W in its newly developed US2H package that has the packaging code “SOD-323HE”. The package’s thermal resistance has been reduced by about 50% compared to the conventional USC…

Electricity Generation using Piezoelectric Sensor Foot Step Power Generation Circuit using Piezoelectric Sensor

From the past few years the demand of low power electronic portable devices has been increased rapidly. And there are very limited options to power these small portable electronic devices like alkaline batteries or solar power etc. So here we are using a different method to generate small amount of power which uses Piezoelectric sensor. Here we will build…

Cycloconverter types working principle and applications in power electronics Cycloconverters – Types, Working and Applications

Power supplies can be classified into two broad categories: AC power supply and DC power supply. Since only AC power can be generated economically, most electrical machines run on AC power. However, the standard voltage and frequency from generating stations may not suit certain industrial machines. This is where power electronic converters like inverters and cycloconverters…

Self-assembling 3D battery would charge in seconds Self-assembling 3D battery would charge in seconds

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want”, charging a battery make me feels like the same.

 

Researcher’s team at Cornell University led by Ulrich Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, addresses the demand of a battery which has…

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) Transistor IGBT - Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor

IGBT is a short form of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor, combination of Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) and Metal oxide Field effect transistor (MOS-FET). It’s is a semiconductor device used for switching related applications.

As IGBT is a combination of MOSFET and Transistor, it has advantages of the both transistors and MOSFET. MOSFET has…

5.5-V DC/DC step-down power module TI's ultra-small 5.5-V DC/DC step-down power module delivers true 6A performance

Highly integrated synchronous power module features up to 95 percent efficiency for space- and height-constrained applications

Texas Instruments presents a 5.5V step-down power module that gives a constant output of 6A of current with up to 95% efficiency. TPSM82480 DC/DC module integrates power MOSFETs and shielded inductor into a small footprint…