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Transphorm Inc. announced that it has secured fundamental patents in the area of Gallium Nitride (GaN) power conversion. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent number 8,816,751 titled “Inductive Load Power Switching Circuits” was granted August 26, 2014 and the patent application number 13/887,204 titled “Bridge Circuits and Their Components” was allowed by the USPTO on August 27,

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Fairchild Semiconductor launched a new online destination designed to provide complete support for small businesses, inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs through their entire design cycle. Taking a new approach to empowering the large number of smaller companies that make up today’s semiconductor customer base, Fairchild retooled its website with a focus on guiding innovators through the development of their products and

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Northern Power Systems, Inc. has launched the next generation of their industry leading permanent magnet/direct drive distributed wind turbines. The 100-kW NPS 100C and the 60-kW NPS 60C are commercially available for delivery to markets around the world starting in the fourth quarter of 2014. A new 24.4 meter rotor features state-of-the-art hub and blade technology with superior aerodynamics providing

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Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH today announced its plan to establish the R-IN Consortium, aimed at providing global support for the development of industrial equipment incorporating industrial Internet communication functionality, including manufacturing equipment, security cameras, and robots. R-IN is a development platform based on multi-protocol communication chips incorporating the R-IN engine, which combines high-speed, real-time performance and low power consumption, and

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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd. has secured a production source for its proprietary 3C-SiC on silicon epiwafers with commercial SiC wafer and epitaxy supplier Norstel AB. Anvil’s novel process for the growth of device quality 3C-SiC epilayers on silicon wafers has been successfully transferred onto production reactors at Norstel’s state-of-the-art facilities in Norrkoping, Sweden. Wafers grown using Anvil’s patented stress-control techniques support

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GlacialPower, a division of Taiwanese technology manufacturer GlacialTech, today announces the newest addition to its DALI product lineup — the GP-DP004N-16V. A DALI power supply outputting 200mA, the GP-DP004N is enough for a full 64 device DALI network. Compatible with DALI standard IEC62386, the GP-DP004N-16V takes universal AC input from 100- to 240-Vac to provide constant voltage at 16Vdc. With

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced a new series of low-profile, rail-to-rail output gate-drive photocouplers for directly driving low- to medium-power IGBTs and power MOSFETs: the TLP5751, TLP5752 and TLP5754. The TLP5751 offers a peak output current of +1.0A and can drive power MOSFETs and low-power IGBTs up to 20A. The +2.5A TLP5752 and +4.0A TLP5754 will drive

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Expanding its portfolio of high-voltage power solutions for offline ac-dc designs, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced a 700-V switcher that claims the industry’s lowest quiescent current of less than 100 uA – half the power consumption of existing solutions. The UCC28880 controller integrates a 700-V power MOSFET and high-voltage current source, increasing overall energy efficiency of “always-on” non-isolated power

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ams AG today introduced the AS5600,a magnetic rotary position sensor which makes it easier to replace a traditional potentiometer with a more reliable contactless alternative. To appeal to manufacturers and users of potentiometers, the AS5600 features a ratiometric output, mirroring the output of a potentiometer (which is a variable resistor). This means that users of a potentiometer do not need

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TE Connectivity announces its low-profile, surface-mount technology (SMT), miniature hermaphroditic connectors. The connectors are designed to provide power between adjacent linear LED lighting strip modules and enable faster and more efficient connections, by allowing customers to mate and unmate linear LED modules strips horizontally and vertically.“The SMT miniature hermaphroditic connectors allow LED-printed circuit board strips to be joined with more

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