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TSI Semiconductors, Inc. has completed its spin-off of TSI’s Products Division. The new independent company, TF Semiconductor Solutions, Inc. (TF Semi), will focus on the power management market where its 750V high-voltage process has already won designs with domestic and international customers. TF Semi will focus on LED drivers, LVDS interface devices, and JTAG system testing solutions and other power

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Renesas Electronics Europe today announced its new RX111 motor control kits. These inverter reference solution kits are designed to drive any 3-phase permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM), also called brushless ac motors. The RX111 inverter kits enable engineers to save time by eliminating the need to tune their motor parameters and evaluate the best tuning algorithm coefficients. As a result,

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Stackpole’s RNV Series uses proprietary manufacturing processes and materials to provide a robust product that has excellent electrical performance under prolonged high-temperature and high-humidity stress. It can withstand 1000 hours at 40 degrees C, at least 90% relative humidity with cycled power on for 1.5 hours, off for 0.5. The RNV Series has a working voltage rating up to 1600Vdc

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced two new series of 0.5 to 1.5A class Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBD): the S30 series (30V type) and S40 series (40V type). With options available in a compact 1.0×0.6 mm package size, the new SBDs are well-suited to smart phones and tablet PCs. They also function as highly-efficient circuits for wireless power

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To increase its offerings in the 12V voltage range of wireless power transmitter coils, Wurth Electronics developed two new coils. Those coils comply with the Qi standard of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). The 760308104113 (A13), as a single coil, and 760308104119 (A19), as a two coil array, give the customers the advantage to increase the active wireless power transfer

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Batteries are the mainstay of backup power systems and require regular testing to ensure their reliability. The new Fluke® 500 Series Battery Analyzers simplify the workflow of testing stationary batteries and battery banks through an intuitive user interface that provides quick, guided test setups ensuring technicians are capturing the correct data while visual and audio feedback cues reduce the risk

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PowerGate, recently acquired by Sager Electronics, announced the release of the new single-output Mean Well 5,000 Watt RST-5000 series of power supplies with wide range 3-phase ac input and outputs of 24-Vdc or 48-Vdc that are highly trimmable from 20-120% of rated voltage and 20-100% of rated current for extreme flexibility. The RST-5000 exploits a new generation circuit topology achieving

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Lapis Semiconductor, a ROHM Group Company, has announced the development of a low-power microcontroller that integrates an 8-bit MCU core, speech synthesis circuit, high-efficiency Class D speaker amplifier (3.0V: 0.45W, 5.0V: 1.0W), non-volatile memory, and oscillator circuit on a single chip, making audio playback possible by simply connecting to a speaker. The ML610Q304 also provides hardware-based audio playback operation that

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The giant lithium-ion production facility, designed to supply an increasing market volume of electrical cars with energy storage that Musk intends to establish along with his technology partner Panasonic will fail to achieve a significant effect on battery prices – and it will create a massive overcapacity, says Lux Research analyst Cosmin Laslau. Despite its massive capacity of 35 GWh,

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As part of its “100 millions pour les énergies renouvelables et l’efficacité énergétique” program, the Canton of Vaud allocates about two million francs (US$2.17 million) to the Distributed electrical systems laboratory of Professor Mario Paolone of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in order to implement a comprehensive system of energy storage. Leclanché S.A. and EPFL will collaborate on

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