Power Management DesignLine

Power Tip 20: Watch Those Unintended Resonant Responses

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:00:00 EST

Understand how filter ringing can lead to power-supply failures

When a solution is the solution, or: when an old dog meets an old dummy (load)

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:14:00 EST

The liquid dummy load is an intriguing solution, both literally and figuratively, to a common problem

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Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:14:00 EST

IBM demos 100-GHz graphene transistor

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

IBM Research has fabricated the worlds' fastest graphene transistor--100 GHz--on 2-inch wafers created by thermal decomposiiton of silicon carbide for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) under its Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program.

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Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST

Magnetism seen as key to superconductivity

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:18:00 EST

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) claims that magnetism

ESC speaker to describe emerging bio-ASICs

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:09:00 EST

The future of medical electronics could turn on the arrival of a new class of nanoscale chips that can monitor and deliver personalized therapies to human cells, according to a Berkeley researcher who will discuss the latest work in one of several sessions on medical electronics at the Embedded Systems Conference in April.

Overvoltage-protection devices from -75V to +44V target automotive applications

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:29:00 EST

Maxim Integrated Products announced the MAX16914/MAX16915 overvoltage-protection controllers for automotive and industrial systems that must tolerate high-voltage transient and fault conditions

Low-clamping protection array targets fast-growing Ethernet market

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:12:00 EST

Semtech, RClamp, 2502L, ESD,

Power modules simplify design and lowers risk

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:25:00 EST

Intersil's ISL8204M and ISL8206M are additions to the company's power module family that simplify design, lower risk and accelerate time-to-market.

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Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:25:00 EST

Maxim releases two-string HB LED driver for automotive applications

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:09:00 EST

Maxim's new two-string HB LED driver integrates a boost switching converter, two linear current sinks, and all necessary power MOSFETs.

High-speed synchronous N-Channel MOSFET driver features powerful gate drive

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:01:00 EST

Linear Technology Corp.'s LTC4449 is a high speed synchronous MOSFET driver designed to drive upper and lower power N-channel MOSFETs in a synchronous rectified converter topology.

ON Semiconductor expands 100-V N-Channel MOSFET family to offer high current capability

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:38:00 EST

ON Semiconductor has expanded its N-channel power MOSFET portfolio with the addition of 12 new 100 V devices.

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Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:38:00 EST

45-V input 100-mA LDO offers low noise and output down to 0.6-V

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:21:00 EST

Linear Technology Corporation has introduced a high voltage, low noise, low dropout voltage linear regulator that delivers up to 100 mA continuous output current with a 300 mV dropout voltage at full load.

Full-year chip sales fell 9% in 2009, says SIA

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:05:00 EST

Global semiconductor sales were $226.3 billion in 2009, a decline of 9 percent from 2008 when sales were $248.6 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The full-year decline was as had been expected in the last month but much less than had been predicted in the first months of 2009.

Isolate your interface to communicate safely and better (Part 2 of 2)

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:00:28 EST

Understand how galvanic isolation of signal and power can improve performance and safety of basic interfaces such as RS-485

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Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:00:28 EST

Fundamentals of designing with MOSFET power switches

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:00:00 EST

Understand how to use these basic, versatile, essential discrete components

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Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:00:00 EST

The vertical-integration mandala keeps turning

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST

It's "back to the future" and "deja vu again", as IC vendors move into modules and multi-component devices

Point/Counterpoint: Apple's iPad, dud or must-have?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST

Now that the decibel level has finally diminished, it's time to take a hard look at Apple Inc.'s latest attempt to influence the direction of consumer electronics and, to a large extent, the way we live: the iPad.

Report: Smart meters rise to 212 million in 2014

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:12:00 EST

Deployments of smart electricity meters worldwide will rise from 76 million in 2009 to reach about 212 million in 2014, according to a new report from ABI Research.

Analyst rails against the fab-lite

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:21:00 EST

The fabless chip vendors and pursuers of fab-lite manufacturing strategies are about to get a shock, according to Malcolm Penn, principal analyst with Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England). Some companies could under-perform, others could be driven out of business in a market that should be booming for them; and all because they have lost control of manufacturing.

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:21:00 EST

Low-ESR solid tantalum chip capacitors feature built-in fuse

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:41:00 EST

Vishay Intertechnology's TF3 Tantamount low-ESR solid tantalum chip capacitors are delivered in three molded case sizes and feature a built-in fuse for safety-critical applications.

Intelligent Interleaving: improving energy efficiency in AC-DC power supplies

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:52:00 EST

From Fairchild Semiconductor, a how-to on improving energy efficiency in your power supply design using the FAN9612 Interleaved Dual Boundary Conduction Mode PFC controller.

ESC: Saluting the unsung hero of product development

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:37:00 EST

Test engineers should get as much credit as product designers, but they don't. Here's to the test engineer, whose daily challenges and strong will make them a valuable addition to the product development cycle.

Future Horizons sees 30% chip market boom

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:42:00 EST

The worldwide chip market is set for two years of more than 20 percent growth and could even hit more than 30 percent growth in a single year, according to Malcolm Penn, the principal analyst and founder of the U.K. market analysis company Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England).

Presented By: NEC

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:42:00 EST

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Earnings roundup: ST, IDT, RF Micro post profits

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:47:00 EST

STMicroelectronics, Altera and Integrated Device Technology became the latest chip makers to deliver quarterly numbers that beat consensus analyst expectations, while RF Micro Devices came up slightly short on revenue.

Intersil module solves difficult power supply challenges

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:09:00 EST

Aimed at satisfying a wide range of point-of-load (POL) power requirements, Intersil's scalable power module is easy to use, lowers risk, speeds time to market, provides a smaller footprint and simplifies inventory.