Tag: new energy news

29
Jun

Digital PFC ICs target Light-Load Performance

Power Integrations today announced its HiperPFS™-3 family of power factor correction ICs, which offer high power factor and high efficiency across the entire load range. Targeting applications with continuous power demands up to 405W for universal input and 900W for high-line, the ICs feature efficiency levels of better than 95% from 10% load to full load and consume less than

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29
Jun

Long-Range Broadband PLC with Multi-hop Functionality

MegaChips Corporation today announced the availability of its BlueChip PLC chip with Multi-hop capability. The KL5BPLC250WMP is a high frequency PLC communication SoC that can operate over longer distances than traditional PLC devices. This product is scheduled to begin mass production from October 2015. Traditional PLC devices such as the IEEE 1901, communicate between a Master and many Terminals, but

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29
Jun

Next-Generation Latch Using Vertical Hall Technology

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces a new Vertical Hall-effect Sensor IC that is an extremely temperature-stable and stress-resistant magnetic sensing device designed for harsh operating environments. Allegro’s A1260 is actuated by alternating north and south polarity magnetic fields in plane with the device’s branded face rather than perpendicular to the branded face, as in a traditional Hall-effect sensor. This enables system

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29
Jun

Medically-Approved 500W Haswell-Ready ATX PC Power Supply

TRUMPower announces the medically approved 500W TMPC-500H, passing testing for compatibility with the Haswell™ processor platform. Compared to the prior generation Ivy Bridge™ platform, the Haswell™ platform substantially cuts the minimum sleep power consumption by one order of magnitude from 6W to 0.6W. Incompatible power supplies may require a hard reset when there is a substantial load on the non-primary

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29
Jun

Low-Cost Anti-Corrosive Thru-Hole Resistors

The HDM Series from Stackpole Electronicsis a thru-hole carbon film resistor with proprietary materials and processing that greatly improve the performance of this series in high humidity applications. Typically, film resistors can be susceptible to moisture corrosion when exposed to high humidity conditions. This corrosion will begin as a positive resistance shift initially and eventually will lead to the part

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29
Jun

700V HVICs Increase Reliability and Shrink Board Space

Infineon Technologies AG has announced the introduction of a family of rugged, reliable 700 V High-Voltage ICs (HVICs) optimized for solar, power supply, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), welding and industrial drive applications. The 700V offering enables designers of high-voltage power stages to simplify their design while making them more robust. Recommended: 650V GaN Power Transistors feature 12mOhm Rdson “The new

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29
Jun

High-Reliability Tantalum SMD Capacitors

AVX Corporation has added more than a dozen new high-reliability SMD tantalum capacitors to its TMJ S1gma™ Series, which exhibits the lowest DCL and twice the reliability of any commercial grade tantalum capacitors currently on the market (0.005CV standard and 0.001CV on selected codes), in addition to an impressively scant baseline part failure rate of < 0.5% per 1,000 hours

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29
Jun

Programmable Gate Driver includes Monitoring and Fault Reporting

AgileSwitch has released a new IGBT Driver for EconoDual™ style modules that simultaneously increases functionality – and reduces cost. This is the most powerful, programmable gate drive board on the market. AgileDrivers are compatible with IGBTs from leading manufacturers including IXYS, Fuji, Infineon and PowerEx. Typical applications include solar/PV inverters, wind turbines, UPS, HEV/EV, and high speed trains/traction. Recommended: 650V

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29
Jun

Microcontrollers Feature Advanced ARM Cortex-M7 Core

STMicroelectronics has become the first chip maker to begin volume production of microcontrollers featuring the new ARM® Cortex®-M7 processor: the latest and highest-performing Cortex-M core for advanced consumer, industrial, medical, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The smart architecture of ST’s new STM32F7 microcontrollers combines the Cortex-M7 core with advanced peripherals, giving product designers unrivalled opportunities to enhance application performance, add new

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29
Jun

AEC-Q200 SMD Flat Chip Temperature Sensors

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced a new AEC-Q200-qualified version of its PTS series of platinum SMD flat chip temperature sensors. Designed to provide accurate and stable temperature sensing for automotive, space, and industrial electronics, Vishay Beyschlag PTS AT series devices combine enhanced thermal cycling performance with higher operating temperatures to +175 degrees C. Thanks to a highly-controlled platinum thin-film manufacturing

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