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Intersil Corporation today claimeded the industry’s first 50A fully encapsulated digital dc-dc PMBus power module. The ISL8272M is a complete step-down power supply that delivers up to 50A of output current from industry standard 12V or 5V input power rails, and four modules can be combined to support up to 200A rails. It provides point-of load conversions for advanced FPGAs,

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced the industry’s first 80-V, 10-A integrated gallium-nitride (GaN) FET power-stage prototype, which consists of a high-frequency driver and two GaN FETs in a half-bridge configuration – all in an easy-to-design quad flat no-leads (QFN) package. TI has an arranged supplier agreement with Efficient Power Conversion Corp. (EPC) for GaN FETs – the LMG5200 is

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Silego Technology, Inc. today announces the fourth generation of GreenPAK (GPAK) Mixed-signal Matrix ICs. The GPAK4 family strengthens Silego’s industry leading position in Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMIC). Silego’s GPAK4 family of NVM Programmable CMIC devices enables innovative designers to integrate many system functions such as comparators, ADCs, logic, delays, counters, resets, power sequencing, voltage sensing, and interface circuits while minimizing

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New zipper fin heat sinks from Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) are protecting thousands of components from the dangers of excess heat at a lower cost than other high fin density heat sink types. Zipper fins are machined from thin sheet metal, typically aluminum or copper, and are formed into custom shapes. The sheets are designed to interlock with a

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Microsemi Corporation today announced availability of its SmartFusion2™ SoC FPGA dual-axis motor control kit with a modular motor control IP suite and reference design. The kit, which simplifies motor control designs using a single SoC FPGA, accelerates time to market and is scalable across multiple industries such as industrial, aerospace and defense. Typical applications include factory and process automation, robotics,

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ZMD AG (ZMDI) has released the ZSPM1507, ZSPM1508 and ZSPM1509 single-phase, true-digital pulse-width modulator (pwm) power controllers optimized for non-isolated point-of-load (POL) applications. The ZSPM1507, ZSPM1508 and ZSPM1509 are pre-configured to provide customers with a fast time-to-market and easy-to-design solution for high-performance, digitally controlled power supplies with one of ZMDI’s integrated MOSFET power stage DrMOS products: the ZSPM9000, ZSPM9010, ZSPM9015

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Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor and Storage Products Company today announced the launch of power multiplexer ICs that can switch between two power sources, for use in charging circuits of mobile devices. Shipment of the new TCK32xG series starts from today. The new products can switch power sources through external signals and also through a built-in auto selection mode function, which switches

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Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of a new microcontroller, the TMPM311CHDUG, as the latest addition to its ARM® Cortex®-M3-based TX03 series. This MCU is designed for smart meter applications. Sample shipments will start in April, with mass production scheduled to start in September, 2015. A power measurement analog front-end (AFE) for single-phase and three-phase smart meters requires simultaneous high-precision

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Diodes Incorporated announces the ZXTR2105F regulator that monolithically integrates a transistor, Zener diode and resistor to provide a 5V, 15mA output from inputs up to 60V. Offered in a small SOT-23 package, this regulator transistor reduces component count and minimizes PCB area in microcontroller applications, such as dc cooling fans for PCs and servers, as well motor drive, blowers and

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ZBB Energy Corporation announced today the introduction of a zinc-bromine (ZnBr) flow battery specifically designed for behind the meter energy storage applications in the commercial and industrial building market. The Agile Flow Battery has been engineered based upon ZBB’s flow battery design expertise, it’s breadth of real world application data derived from dozens of installations, and stringent lab testing at

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