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SynQor, Inc. announced the release of its military Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) EXA Series of isolated and fully-regulated dc-dc converters. This new EXA Series offers up to 300W of power in a quarter-brick package. These highly efficient (95% at full load), high power density dc-dc converters have a 28V nominal input voltage (16-40Vin range with a 50V transient for 1 second). They

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Expanding its extensive portfolio of dc-dc converters, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced the its smallest and highest performance 1-A and 4-A buck-boost regulators. Designed to extend battery life in Li-Ion battery-powered designs ranging from portable medical devices to point-of-sale terminals, the 1-A TPS63050 and 4-A TPS630250 single-inductor devices achieve up to 95 percent efficiency in half the solution size

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It’s tomorrow already for a Chicago resident here in Manila, the most densely populated city in the world and government and commercial capital of the far-flung Philippines, long known as the Pearl of the Orient. I’m halfway around the world from my home because this week the International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition is in session. Over 1.3 billion

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The new low cost LED funding will be distributed among nine one- to two-year projects in six different states. The total Energy Department contribution adds up to $10.5 million. The recipients will chip in an additional $3.7 million for a total of $13.7 all together. Here’s the breakdown: 1. In Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University is tasked with “Novel Transparent Phosphor

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U.S. financier Warren Buffett, already one of his country’s largest investors in clean technologies, says he’s prepared to double his stake in renewable energy. Speaking June 9 in Las Vegas, he noted that his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, already had invested about $15 billion in clean-energy enterprises, and added that he has “another $15 billion ready to go, as far

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Before running a formal test with multiple resistance temperature detector sensors, it is often necessary to calibrate and debug a data-acquisition system to verify basic functionality. The brute-force approach would be to wire all the sensors to the front-end board and use an environmental chamber to set the temperature of the RTDs. An easier way is to use a software-controlled

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Analog Devices has added the ADSP-BF70x to the Blackfin processor family. The new offerings incorporate the new Blackfin+ core. It can handle 2 by 16-bit, 32-bit and complex math operations in a single cycle. It is backwards compatible and delivers 800 MMACS for 16-bit operations and half that for 32-bit operations. Versions are available with up to 1 Mbyte of

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Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently introduced the highest performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) at the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology. The UCSB research promises to help deliver higher semiconductor performance at lower power consumption levels for next-generation, high-performance servers. The research is supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s

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STMicroelectronics has revealed an advanced new product family enabling power supply designers to drive up energy efficiency in applications such as solar inverters and electric vehicles, enterprise computing and industrial motor drives. ST is among the first companies to produce this type of device, a high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET, and has achieved the industry’s highest temperature rating of

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Achieving high power density, higher efficiency and superior performance for next-generation transportation systems means reducing the volume and weight of power conversion systems.  To that end, cryogenic power devices have demonstrated a number of benefits when compared to their room temperature counterparts. Power electronics is a critical technology for enabling electromechanical drives, transportation, renewable energy systems and power grids. For

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