Power
The State of Energy Harvesting Discussed at Darnell’s Power Forum
August 25, 2010 9:39 am | by Linnea Brush | News | CommentsLike most emerging technologies, energy harvesting is evolving to meet certain needs in specific applications. Even though some of this has already been established, challenges still remain that enterprising companies can take advantage of.
China TMK Battery Systems Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results
August 24, 2010 1:21 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsChina TMK Battery Systems Inc. announced the company’s financial results for the three month period ended June 30, 2010. For the second quarter of 2010, revenues increased 47.3% to $16.8 million, from $11.4 million...
Sony Develops Technology to Facilitate both Internal Data Transmission & Power Supply with a Single Cable
August 24, 2010 1:20 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsSony Corp. has developed ’single wire interface technology’, a hybrid transmission technology which facilitates both data and power transmissions through a single cable. This technology enables the internal wiring of a mobile device to be...
Ron Sege Joins Echelon as President & CEO
August 23, 2010 12:20 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsEchelon Corp. announced that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Ron Sege as President and Chief Executive Officer and to the company’s Board of Directors, completing a search process begun last November. Sege...
AMETEK Acquires American Reliance Power Division
August 23, 2010 12:20 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsAMETEK, Inc. announced that it has acquired assets comprising substantially all of American Reliance’s Power Division (AMREL Power), a provider of highly differentiated dc power supplies and electronic loads for the automated test equipment...
SMA Solar Sales in First Half of 2010 Almost as High as Whole of 2009
August 23, 2010 12:20 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsSMA Solar Technology AG presented its financial report for the first six months from January to June 2010. With group sales of €815.8 million and an inverter output sold of 3,146 MW, the data...
GaN Advancements Will Be Presented at Darnell’s Power Forum
August 23, 2010 10:33 am | Blogs | CommentsWill enhancement mode GaN transistors (eGaN) replace power MOSFET/IGBTs in power management applications? Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, believes it will and will explain why at Darnell’s Power Forum ’10.
Darnell Power Forum Sheds Light on the Smart Grid
August 23, 2010 10:28 am | by Linnea Brush | Blogs | CommentsEveryone in the power supply community wants to know power implications of the Smart Grid, but not much has been agreed upon. Darnell’s Power Forum ’10 will bring some clarity to this question with a session on “Enabling the Smart Grid”.
Power Management Solutions for Different Circuitry Blocks
August 23, 2010 9:24 am | by Rich Nowakowski, Texas Instruments | Articles | CommentsPortable and battery-powered applications are continually driven to increase battery life and reduce size. Analog circuitry and ultra-low-power microcontrollers (MCU) often reside on the same circuit board, each having their own particular power requirements.
Waytronx Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
August 20, 2010 12:21 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsWaytronx, Inc., along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, CUI Inc. and CUI-Japan, its Japanese subsidiary, and Comex Electronics, a partially owned (49%) Japanese subsidiary, announced that it posted results for the second quarter ended...
GM & Bright Automotive Announce Strategic Relationship
August 20, 2010 12:21 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsBright Automotive and General Motors Co. announced that they have agreed to pursue a strategic relationship and that GM has provided funding to the Indiana automaker, the first funding action by the newly formed...
AMSC Acquires 25% Stake in Blade Dynamics Ltd.
August 20, 2010 12:20 pm | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsAmerican Superconductor Corp. announced that it has acquired a 25% ownership position in Blade Dynamics Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of advanced wind turbine blades based on proprietary materials and structural technologies. Founded in...
Darnell's Power Forum
August 20, 2010 11:27 am | Articles | CommentsDarnell's Power Forum (DPF) is an exciting new event that builds on the success of the Digital Power Forum and the nanoPower Forum.
International Research Team Develops Ultrahigh-power Energy Storage Devices
August 20, 2010 5:31 am | News | CommentsA team of researchers from the U.S. and France report the development of a mirco-supercapacitor with remarkable properties.
Switching Regulator Needs No Heat Sink
August 19, 2010 9:20 am | Product Releases | CommentsV-Infinity announced the addition of a 2-A model to their V78XX switching regulator series. The compact V78XX-2000 series has been designed to be a high performance alternative to linear regulators.
Sample Kit Offers Current-Compensated Ring-Core Power Chokes
August 19, 2010 8:44 am | Product Releases | CommentsTDK-EPC presents a new sample kit of EPCOS current-compensated ring-core power chokes.
Power MOSFETs Optimized for Class D Applications
August 19, 2010 8:01 am | International Rectifier | Product Releases | CommentsInternational Rectifier introduced a family of automotive DirectFET2 power MOSFETs for high frequency switching applications including the output stage for Class D Audio systems.
ICs Eliminate Sense-Resistor Power Loss in Standby
August 18, 2010 5:54 am | Power Integrations | Product Releases | CommentsPower Integrations introduced the SENZero family of ICs that disconnect sense resistors from high-voltage rails during standby or remote-off conditions.
Electronics Thermal Heatsink Design Tutorial
August 18, 2010 4:55 am | Videos | CommentsDave takes you though the basic theory of thermal design and how heatsink calculations work. Then there are some real world temperature measurements to see how close to the theory we get. How do you read a heatsink thermal response graph? What is emissivity? It's all here in thermal design 101.
Automotive Socket Features Weather and Vibration Resistance
August 17, 2010 11:47 am | Product Releases | CommentsMPD’s AS212-C automotive socket features weather and vibration resistance in a durable nylon housing. The socket touts easy with the inclusion of a right angle bezel for placement under a panel, dashboard or cabinet. Also included are
Boost Device Drives up to 120 White LEDs
August 17, 2010 8:07 am | Product Releases | CommentsSemtech Corp. announced the SC442, a 10-channel white LED driver with an integrated 3A boost power switch. The device is capable of driving up to 120 LEDs at up to 30 mA per channel and is packaged in a low-profile 4 mm x 4 mm x0.6 mm, 28-pin MLPQ package. The SC442 operates
Current Shunt Monitors
August 16, 2010 6:10 am | Videos | CommentsThis presentation from Digi-Key and Texas Instruments provides a brief overview of current shunt monitors with the intent to give a basic understanding of current shunt monitors and their key parameters.
Terminations Handle up to 10 kW Peak
August 16, 2010 5:20 am | Product Releases | CommentsNarda, an L-3 Communications company, introduced rugged Model 368BNM and 369BNM high-power terminations that operate up to 18 GHz.
Power Supplies Provide 30 W in a Small Package
August 13, 2010 7:56 am | Protek Power North America | Product Releases | CommentsThe PMP31 Series of medical desktop power supplies from Protek Power provides 30 W of power in a 1.96” x 4.64” x 1.26” package. The series is approved to UL60601-1, CSA22.2 No. 601.1, and EN60601-1 medical standards and complies with
Supply Improves Picture Quality in AMOLED Displays
August 11, 2010 11:28 am | Product Releases | CommentsTexas Instruments introduced a 200-mA power supply designed to provide improved picture quality for active matrix OLED displays that require positive and negative supply rails.
