National Semiconductor WEBENCH FPGA Power Architect power tool
08 October, 2010 | Supplied by: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
National Semiconductor has introduced WEBENCH FPGA Power Architect, claimed to be the industry’s first design tool to model and optimise power supplies for FPGAs.
Linear Technology LT6654 voltage reference
17 September, 2010 | Supplied by: element14
Linear Technology has introduced the LT6654, a SOT23 series voltage reference designed specifically for precision operation from -40 to 125°C.
Texas Instruments 200 mA dual output power supply
17 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Texas Instruments Australia Ltd
A 200 mA dual output power supply designed to provide improved picture quality for active matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays that require positive and negative supply rails has been released. The TPS65137 uses a low dropout post regulator for line and load transient response with minimum output voltage ripples to provide stable picture quality.
Phihong POE61U/POE61W 60 W midspan
17 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Braemac Pty Ltd
Phihong has expanded its passive power injector range to include a 60 W midspan.
Linear Technology LT3651-4.2 battery charger
17 September, 2010 | Supplied by: element14
Linear Technology has introduced the LT3651-4.2, a 4A monolithic synchronous buck battery charger for single-cell Li-Ion/polymer batteries.
Maxim MAX11068 battery-monitoring IC
16 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Power Technology & Element Energy
Maxim has introduced the MAX11068, a high-voltage, 12-cell, battery-monitoring IC for hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and any system that stacks long series strings of batteries. It employs a SMBus-laddered communication bus that allows multiple 11068s to be daisy chained together without isolators.
Working towards a power-grid battery
15 September, 2010
If battery-making is an art, then University at Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi is among its most prolific masters, with more than 140 US patents, all in energy storage.
Silicon carbide research may give better inverters
09 September, 2010
A new material is poised to make the frequency inverters used with large electric motors more efficient and powerful. Together with several partners, researchers from Siemens Corporate Technology and experts for large electrical drives at Siemens Industry Drive Technologies are studying how the semiconductor silicon carbide can be used as a diode material in place of pure silicon.
Mean Well TN/TS-3000 DC/AC true sine wave inverter series
07 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Soanar Limited
Mean Well has introduced the TN/TS-3000 series of DC/AC true sine wave inverters, that is lightweight and is claimed to have up to 92% efficiency.
Linear Technology LTC3589 power management IC
13 August, 2010 | Supplied by: element14
Linear Technology has announced the LTC3589, a power management solution for portable processors such as i.MX, PXA, ARM, OMAP and other portable microprocessor systems.
Semikron SKAI 2 compact power electronic systems
02 July, 2010 | Supplied by: Semikron Danfoss
Semikron has released the SKAI 2 platforms, claimed to be the most compact power electronic systems for hybrid and electric vehicles for use in agriculture, construction, materials handling and in battery-powered vehicles of any kind.
Diodes API9221 lithium-ion/polymer battery charger IC
16 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
For a variety of handheld equipment requiring both USB and AC/DC power adapter charging inputs, Diodes has introduced the API9221 lithium-ion/polymer battery charger IC.
Bid to lower solar cell costs
24 May, 2010
Dow Corning has signed a three-year contract with IMEC to perform joint research on the next generation of crystalline silicon solar cells.
Scientists see lithium-ion battery flaws
20 May, 2010
Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of ‘seeing’ chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.
Rapid car battery charging may pose grid problems
12 May, 2010
Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid. The development of methods to rapidly recharge cars is just one of the company's contributions to Denmark's Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid.
