EDN India - Power Sources / Controllers

TI Launches PowerLab Design Library

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Texas Instruments Inc.'s PowerLab library helps designers select from more than 300 power management reference designs for a wide range of applications and power conversion topologies. Examples include ....

Solar Installations Rise�but Revenue Growth Stalls

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Despite a recovery in global solar installations in the second half of the year, plunging prices will result in zero revenue growth for the photovoltaic (PV) module business in 2011, according to research ....

PMIC Enables Lower Power Consumption in Telecom Equipment

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

National Semiconductor Corp.'s two new high-voltage system power management and protection ICs feature on-chip power management bus (PMBus) support and enable comprehensive system power management for ....

MOSFET Provides High Power at Low Loss

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

PN-junction diodes often have a dropout voltage of approximately 1.2V for silicon power diodes. That voltage drop causes power diodes to dissipate considerable power, resulting in a loss of efficiency ....

Fully Integrated 16-bit ADC Touts 65% Smaller Package Size

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Texas Instruments Inc.�s ADS1118 16-bit delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) integrates a programmable gain amplifier (PGA), reference, temperature sensor and four-input multiplexer, all in a ....

Circuit Secures Bootstrap Operation Under Light Load

Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

A previous Design Idea highlights a potential issue of a bootstrap IC under light-load or precharged load operation (Reference 1). The circuit in Figure 1, with the additional circuit in the green box, ....

Readying for 20nm

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

The industry is all set for 20nm tape-out. Last June Synopsis and STMicroelectronics announced that the R&D collaboration between them to develop an SoC design using ST 20nm process technology, co-developed ....

element14 Doubles Semi Portfolio in APAC

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

element14 has doubled its portfolio of semiconductor components in its inventory of 130,000 electronic products. The company now stocks the broadest range of semiconductor integrated circuits in Asia ....

TI Launches Single-chip Battery Management IC

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Texas Instruments Inc.�s (TI) BQ77910 battery management and protection device can manage four- to 10-cell Li-ion and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. In addition, two BQ77910 devices can be stacked ....

Microchip Improves Energy Metering Accuracy with 6-Channel AFEs

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Microchip Technology Inc.'s newly released MCP3903 stand-alone analog front end (AFE) integrates six 16-/24-bit Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), offering improved accuracy for three-phase ....