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Infineon’s Evaluation Board Built to Anticipate SiC in Motor Drives

The EVAL-M5-E1B1245N-SiC supports the design of industrial drive motor applications of up to 7.5 kW.

4 days ago by Gary Elinoff

ST and Mikroe Collaborate on “Click Boards” for STSPIN Motor Driver ICs in Embedded Systems

The newly announced Click board series extends the reach of ST's STSPIN motor driver ICs into the Mikroe ecosystem.

October 14, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Taiwan Semiconductor Offers Four New Power MOSFETs for BLDC Motor Control

The dual N-channel devices offer DS breakdown voltages of 40 V and 60 V and current ratings of 25 A to 48 A.

September 15, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Tools for Future EEs: New Texas Instruments Robotics System Learning Kit Supports STEM Education

The TI-RSLK Max allows students to gain hands-on experience building a robot and programming it.

September 06, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Silanna Semiconductor Announces New Active Clamp Flyback PWM Controller for Efficient Power Design

Silanna Semiconductor releases new active clamp flyback PWM controller for power design.

April 16, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Trinamic Introduces the TMC5160 SilentStepStick for Silent Stepper Motor Operation

The TMC5160 SilentStepStick is a tiny breakout board that can drive motors up to 3A phase current at 35V.

April 11, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Trinamic Introduces High-Power Gate Driver for BLDC and PMSM Motor Control Solutions

The TMC6200 integrates in-line current sensing for complete Field Oriented Control solutions for servo motors.

April 10, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

UnitedSiC Announces SiC JFET Family for Low Power AC-DC Flyback Converters

These normally-ON devices are well-suited to form the nucleus of cascode-based 20-100 Watt flyback products.

March 28, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Innovative Isolated ICs from Silicon Labs Promise Precision and Stability

The newly-announced Si89xx product family provides voltage, current, and package options.

March 26, 2019 by Mark Hughes

Silanna Touts Efficiency and Ease of Design with World’s First Active Clamp Flyback Controller

Silanna announces an active clamp flyback controller with built-in UHV components for AC/DC power adapters.

March 20, 2019 by Baker Lawley

New Dual Simultaneous Sampling ADCs from ADI Feature On-Chip Oversampling Blocks

This article looks at two new A/D converters from Analog Devices: the AD7380 and AD7381.

March 15, 2019 by Steve Arar

New STMicro BLDC Controller Takes a Highly Integrated Approach to Motor Control

Take a closer look at the STSPIN32F0B SiP from STMicroelectronics.

March 14, 2019 by Robert Keim

New Isolated IGBT Gate Driver from Analog Devices for Power Supplies and Photovoltaic Inverters

The ADuM4137, which incorporates fault detection and can also drive MOSFETs, is intended for photovoltaic inverters, power-supply circuitry, and motor-control applications.

March 01, 2019 by Robert Keim

Trinamic Releases New Range of “Smart” Brushless DC Motors

TRINAMIC has announced their first range of brushless smart motors. Capable of precise movement, these BLDCs also integrate closed-loop feedback for quality control across a range of applications.

February 19, 2019 by Robin Mitchell

A New Line of Fast-Recovery Power MOSFETs from STMicroelectronics

These superjunction devices are rated for a drain–source voltage of 600 V and target high-performance switching applications.

January 25, 2019 by Robert Keim

An EV Made to Demo Motion Control: Monolithic Power Systems’ mCar Shows Off Angular Sensors

The Monolithic Power Systems mCar EV demo at electronica 2018 showed off angle position sensors and motion control.

November 19, 2018 by Kate Smith

Power Integrations Introduces New Family of Brushless DC Motor Drive ICs

Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch™ family of ICs achieve conversion efficiency of up to 98.5% in brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive applications of up to 300 W.

November 16, 2018 by Gary Elinoff

Taking a Look at a TG-FS-IGBT: A Trench Gate Field-Stop IGBT from STMicroelectronics

This insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) can support 1200 V at 8 A. Additional devices can be added in parallel to support higher current demands.

July 17, 2018 by Mark Hughes

High Efficiencies, Small Package: An Integrated Boost (Step-Up) Module Regulator from Analog Devices

Linear Tech's new boost (step-up) module regulator comes in a small BGA package and offers high efficiencies.

May 03, 2018 by Nick Davis

STM32’s LoRaWAN Software Upgraded to Support Latest Firmware Over-the-Air Updates

The I-CUBE-LRWAN Expansion Package allows developers to support the latest firmware updated over the air (FUOTA) specifications from the LoRa Alliance.

3 hours ago by Lisa Boneta

GaN Systems and ON Semi Develop Half-Bridge Evaluation Board to Drive GaN Power Switches

The new evaluation board simplifies the process of evaluating gallium nitride-based, half-bridge or full-bridge power supplies.

About 13 hours ago by Gary Elinoff

New AI Secures Public Spaces Using Security Cameras, Drone Surveillance, and Facial Recognition

The ever-advancing field of artificial intelligence is opening new vistas for securing homes and public spaces alike.

2 days ago by Gary Elinoff

Flex Power Modules’ New Point-Of-Load Regulator Aims to Pack Power, Save PCB Space

The BMR4615001/001’s input ranges from 4.5 to 14 volts, while its output ranges from 0.6 to 3.3 volts.

3 days ago by Gary Elinoff

Google Launches Open-Source OpenTitan Project for Silicon Root of Trust Chips

Google’s OpenTitan is a collaborative venture with tech companies that offers multi-factor security keys and RoT technology, which will be baked into new chips.

3 days ago by Cabe Atwell

Infineon’s Evaluation Board Built to Anticipate SiC in Motor Drives

The EVAL-M5-E1B1245N-SiC supports the design of industrial drive motor applications of up to 7.5 kW.

4 days ago by Gary Elinoff

Wind River Systems Announces New Version of Simics for Stronger Cybersecurity and DevOps

The new version of Simics provides a secure, shared platform aimed to help embedded developers virtually simulate a full target system.

5 days ago by Lisa Boneta

TE’s New Multi-Sensor Module Geared to Push Smart Devices to Market Faster

The pre-engineered module aims to save developers the effort of finding and deploying separate sensing solutions.

5 days ago by Gary Elinoff

New ams Color Sensor Designed to Eliminate Flicker in Rolling Shutter Sensors

The highly sensitive flicker sensor is designed to deliver distortion-free images and videos captured on a smartphone camera.

November 05, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

TI Rolls Out New ADC for Improved Voice Capture in Noisy, Far-field Environments

TI designed the new ADC to capture low-distortion audio recordings from far distances or in noisy environments.

November 05, 2019 by Lisa Boneta

Dialog Semi Releases “World’s Smallest and Most Power Efficient” Bluetooth 5.1 SoC Module for IoT Applications

Dialog Semiconductor today announced a new BLE SoC—one it claims is the smallest and least power-hungry on the market.

November 04, 2019 by Robin Mitchell

Reader Question: How Do You Use Modules and Modular Design?

Are modules a convenient timesaver? Or a harbinger of changes to how modern engineers design?

November 02, 2019 by Kate Smith

Altium Claims Title of First Cloud-based Platform for eCAD Component Management

Concord Pro allows each player in the design process to share up-to-date component information.

November 01, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Synopsys’ Die-to-Die PHY IP Speeds Up Cloud Computing SoC Designs

The die-to-die PHY IP enables extra-short reach connectivity in multi-chip modules (MCM) for hyper-scale data centers, AI, and networking applications.

November 01, 2019 by Lisa Boneta

Diodes Incorporated Releases Buck Converter Family Designed to Combat EMI

Diode Incorporated’s 40V, 2.2MHz synchronous buck converters are designed for high efficiency across all loads.

October 31, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Keithley SMU Modules Aim to Aid in Low-current, High-capacitance Testing

Source measurement unit modules augment the effectiveness of Keithley's 4200A-SCS Parameter Analyzer.

October 30, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

NXP and Volkswagen Roll Out Wi-Fi-Based V2X Automotive Connectivity Technology

Going firmly against the grain, the new system will rely on Wi-Fi, and not 5G.

October 29, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

New ARM IP Brings Down Costs of AI for Mainstream Products

Two new NPUs, along with a GPU and DPU, expand the scope of the doable for low-cost devices.

October 28, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Diodes Incorporated Reveals 2A Load Switch Aimed to Improve High-Side Load Switch Reliability

The AP22913 features slew-rate control and true reverse-current blocking for single-channel load switching.

October 25, 2019 by Gary Elinoff

Microchip Claims to Have Solved Power Over Ethernet Interoperability Issues with New PoE Products

New solutions enable both legacy and IEEE 802.3bt-2018-compliant devices to be powered via existing Ethernet frameworks.

October 24, 2019 by Gary Elinoff