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Texas Instruments  today introduced the industry’s highest-performance 14-GHz fractional-N PLLatinum® phased-locked loop (PLL) with advanced frequency modulation. The LMX2492 offers the industry’s best noise performance, 6 dB better than the nearest competitor, for improved radio frequency (RF) sensitivity and radar range and accuracy. The device also supports a 200-MHz phase frequency detector, a 5-V charge pump supply and a wide

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Texas Instruments today introduced the first scalable, multi-cell battery monitors that significantly improve battery pack safety and reduce design time of 12-V to 48-V lithium-ion and lithium-iron phosphate batteries used in e-bikes, power tools and energy storage systems. The new bq76920, bq76930 and bq76940 circuits efficiently protect and control 3- to 15-cell batteries when charging or operating in harsh environment

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Featuring up to 200-MHz performance, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C5517 digital signal processor (DSP) speeds processing of data with low standby and low active power consumption, thanks to increased parallelism. Its core includes 13.33- to 5-ns instruction cycle time, a 75- to 200-MHz clock rate, dual multiply-and-accumulate units (up to 450 million multiply-accumulates per second, MMACS), two ALUs, and three internal data/operand

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The cylindrical Lithium Ion Capacitor (LIC) from Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc. offers extremely large energy density and high reliability. Combining the strength of lithium-ion secondary batteries with conventional Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC), this next-generation energy device offers an energy density 4 times greater than EDLCs. Taiyo Yuden’s hybrid LIC boasts the key features of batteries (high voltage and high

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In a sign of their growing acceptance, string inverters are increasingly being considered in megawatt (MW)-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, with over 40 percent of inverter buyers regarding them as suitable for use in systems larger than 1 MW, according to a new report from IHS Technology. In an IHS survey, more than 300 solar installers, distributors and engineering, procurement and

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Power outages lasting just a few seconds can impact a system’s operating functions and also cause a loss of important data. In the past, a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) might have been used as a power backup, but it is overkill for short duration outages and requires constant attention to its batteries. Now, there is Linear Technology’s LTC3350, a mixed-signal

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First Solar, Inc. today announced the launch of its modular AC Power Block™ solar power plant solution and its next generation First Solar Series 4™ thin film photovoltaic (PV) module. The company will showcase these and other solutions at Intersolar Europe in Munich, Germany from 4 to 6 June 2014. Purpose-built for power plant owners and developers seeking to minimize

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UniEnergy Technologies, Inc. (UET) today announced commercial availability of the Uni.System™ grid-scale energy storage system. The Uni.System is modular, factory-integrated (including power conversion), and “plug & play,” comprised of five 20′ standard containers requiring only a concrete pad and interconnection that provide 500kWAC of power for 4 hours, with power up to 600kWAC and energy up to 2.2MWhAC. Uni.System integrates

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The new XC9270/XC9271 series from Torex Semiconductor Ltd. is high breakdown voltage dc-dc converter with 30V operation, 2A output, and an internal driver transistor. With an input voltage of up to 30V, input rating of 36V, peak voltage of 46V for 400ms and an operating ambient temperature range of -40 to +105 degrees, this series is designed for use in

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The IGBT combines the simple gate-drive characteristics of the MOSFET with the high-current and low-saturation-voltage capability of the bipolar transistor in a single device. What is an IGBT? The insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is essentially a three-terminal power semiconductor device typically used as an electronic switch in a wide range of applications. The IGBT combines the simple gate-drive characteristics of

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