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Google, Inc. has announced its “Little Box Challenge” with the support of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. The Little Box Challenge, with a $1,000,000 prize, is an open competition to use wideband gap (WBG) power semiconductors to build a photovoltaic power inverter that is less than one-tenth the size of today’s products. This challenge is being supported by several companies

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What you may get of the software altogether with BTS9000 hardware is on a CD-ROM, or a compressed package download from the URL we offer you. If you get a compressed software package, you’re supposed to uncompressed the software package to a directory before you install it. Simply double click the executable file Setup.exe, the instillation process start up as

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In this article, we are going to give you a simple battery test demo, to show you how to use BTS9 software to start up a battery test. Right click on the virtual battery icon, choose ‘start…’ from the popup menu, then the working step editor will show up, just like the following screen-shots. Here is the place you edit

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Before you get started, first of all, you are supposed to connect BTS9000 with your host computer, right? Let’s do it. The main window of the BTS9000 client software looks like the following picture, and there are some notes marked on the picture for your reference. Click the “Search” button(looks like a magnifier) on the left corner of the Client

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Newest BTSDA in BTS9000

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced that it has extended the power rating of PTN series precision surface-mount thin film chip resistors in the 2512 case size to 2 W. Built using a self-passivated, moisture-resistant tantalum nitride resistive film technology, the Vishay Dale Thin Film devices combine their high power rating with a low absolute TCR of ± 25 ppm/°C and laser-trimmed

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Linear Technology Corp. announces the LT8471, a dual DC/DC converter that utilizes two internal 2 A, 50 V switches and an additional 500 mA switch to facilitate step-down, step-up, and inverting conversions. Each 2 A channel can be independently configured as a buck, boost, SEPIC, flyback, ZETA or inverting DC/DC converter. This broad range of topologies and output configurations makes

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One of the latest Linear Technology dc-to-dc converter ICs is the LTC3124, whose application circuit is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1. The LTC3124features fixed frequency, current mode PWM control for good line and load regulation as well as Burst Mode control that improves efficiency at light loads and reduces standby current at no load. The regulator employs an external

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The news at Techno Frontier from Transphorm, Inc. is the continuation of the story begun late in 2013 when the acquisition of the Fujitsu GaN Business unit was announced. This year, Transphorm is announcing that it is now working with three distributors in Japan. They are UKC Electronics Corporation, IIDA Electronics (TSUSHO) Co., Ltd, and FEI (Fujitsu Electronics Incorporated). Manning

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Size is everything in today’s pocket electronics, and lithium-ion batteries are just too big for the gadgets of the future. So Imprint Energy, a startup in Alameda, Calif., has developed a new form factor for batteries, based on chemistry that once was thought to be suitable for batteries. The problem with lithium-ion batteries is that they react unfavorably with oxygen

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