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Infineon Technologies AG announced the expansion of its Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-Silicon technology and product portfolio. The company now offers both enhancement mode and cascode configuration GaN-based platforms optimized for high performance applications requiring superior levels of energy efficiency including power supplies used in server, telecom, mobile power and consumer goods such as Class D Audio systems. GaN technology significantly reduces

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Allegro MicroSystems, LLC has added two new current sensor ICs that are economical and precise solutions for ac or dc current sensing in industrial, automotive, commercial, and communications systems. Allegro’s ACS724 (5V) and ACS725 (3.3V) are highly-accurate devices with a very small package. Both devices are designed for space constrained applications that will save overall costs due to reduced board

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Bourns, Inc. today introduced an additional semi-shielded power inductor product offering one of the industry’s widest selections of footprint, profile and inductance value options. Designated Model SRN4012T, the latest semi-shielded power inductor from Bourns is designed using superior semi-magnetic shielding technology. Bourns now has a total of 15 SRN models giving designers a breadth of options with selections of 2

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Fairchild Corp. has announced an expanded line of extended temperature (ET) mid-voltage MOSFETs, which can operate at 175 degrees C. The higher operating temperatures enable up to 85 percent greater power density and three times more reliability than MOSFETs rated to the 150 degrees C industry standard. This new family of ET MOSFETs aligns with the IPC-9592 power conversion standard,

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Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co., Inc. has extended its line of GaN power transistors with two new devices, the PGA26E19BV rated for 600V and 10A and the PGA26E08BV rated for 600V and 15A. These normally-off power switches are offered in an 8mm square 1.25mm thick package for high-density applications. They are fabricated on Panasonic’s 6-inch GaN-on-silicon process. Applications are expected to

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FieldView Solutions, Inc. today announced the availability of FieldView 2015 Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools. The new solution’s innovations represent a dramatic leap forward in improving data center resilience by capturing, correlating and analyzing massive amounts of live data, enabling “What If?” simulation of potential failures, contemplated changes and planned maintenance downtime. Customizable dashboards enable vivid presentation of operational

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AVX Corporation has introduced the new TCR Professional Series tantalum chip capacitors with conductive polymer electrodes. Designed for use in high-power dc-dc converters employed in telecommunications, industrial, and avionics applications that demand high reliability and long lifetime performance, TCR Professional Series capacitors are subjected to AVX’s maverick part control Q-Process with statistical screening and process control enhancement to ensure the

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GaN Systems Inc. today announced new topside cooling technology in its wide range of high-power enhancement-mode devices. Topside cooling enables engineers to use conventional, well-understood PCB cooling techniques when incorporating GaN Systems’ market-leading semiconductors into their latest designs for products such as inverters, UPS, hybrid electric vehicles/electric vehicles, high voltage DC-DC conversion and consumer products such as TVs. Recommended: TI

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Micrel Inc. today introduced the MIC7400/MIC7401, a new family of highly integrated and configurable power-management IC (PMIC) solutions featuring six independent dc-dc regulators. Available in a small 4.5mm x 4.5mm FQFN package, this product family provides one of the industry’s highest power density solutions with total solution size of 12mm x 8mm x 1mm. The MIC7400/MIC7401 combine a total of

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To meet the demands of measuring transient currents in semiconductors using new technology, such as SiC and GaN, Power Electronic Measurements Ltd. (PEM) has designed the CWT MiniHF Rogowski current probe. Combining a novel shielding technique, utilizing a low sensitivity coil and patented low-noise signal-conditioning circuitry, the wide-band screened probe boosts immunity to local dV/dt transients while maintaining small size,

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