Power News

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

A new generation of DC-DC converters is lowering current consumption to unprecedented levels while aiming to offer greater design flexibility and space on the board....

This News Brief looks at Infineon's Intelligent Power Module (IPM), the MIPAQ Pro, which has been updated for use in smart grid applications....

Sudipta Chakraborty is the Director of Energy Systems at OPAL-RT. In this Engineer Spotlight, he speaks about challenges facing power system design, how hardware-in-the-loop simulations are...

Diodes Incorporated recently released an adaptive constant on-time (aCOT) synchronous DC-to-DC buck converter that offers high efficiencies and an improved transient response....

Texas Instruments recently released their new voltage boost converter (step-up converter) that offers high efficiencies at light load conditions....

Diodes Incorporated announced a new adjustable constant-current LED step-down (buck) DC/DC converter that accepts an input voltage ranging from 5V to 60V....

A compact μModule point-of-load regulator from Linear Technology can be configured as either a single 20-amp voltage regulator or two 10-amp voltage regulators....

Allegro Microsystems touts their new fully-integrated and highly-sensitive current sensor.

The ADE9153A from Analog Devices is a single-phase energy-metering IC that includes autocalibration.

Gallium nitride, or GaN, was a hot topic among power companies at APEC 2018. AAC's Karissa Manske had the chance to ask GaN Systems CEO, Jim Witham, about what GaN's capable of and where we'll...

Maxim Integrated recently announced an SMBus, four-channel average-power monitoring IC.

The key target of the InnoSwitch3-Pro is to support both fast-charging protocols in consumer devices, and non-charging applications requiring either a load-controlled or configurable output....

This triple-output DC/DC controller offers two buck converters, each with an output voltage range of 0.8 to 24 V, and a boost converter that can produce up to 60 V....

The new ZVS power modules from Vicor offer high efficiencies at high temperatures.

A four-switch DC/DC controller that operates from input voltages above, below, or equal to the regulated output voltage.

Texas Instruments has released a fixed-frequency step-down power module that delivers up to 35 Amps at output voltages ranging from 0.5 to 2 V....

ON Semiconductor offers their new hot swap smart fuse which is an electronically resettable and programmable in-line fuse for high-current applications....

Diodes Incorporated has released a high-power 40 V LED controller that's capable of driving up to 3 amps of current.