Power

Guest columnist Emir Serdarevic, analogue design engineer with austriamicrosystems, asks when designing with analogue switches what does ‘high performance’ mean and what does it cost?

According to Miro Adzan, European business development manager for power management products at Texas Instruments, the “piggy-back” design improves power efficiency and reduces parasitics in the package

The SRzero electric sport scar from Imperial College in London completed two orbits of the M25 motorway on a single charge, breaking the one lap record set by the folk at FHM magazine driving a Tesla. Total distance, including the trip...

The application is designed to provide real-time feeds of temperature, pressure and humidity data as well as key system parameters on the tag itself including solar-cell voltage and sleep time through the Pachube website

Guest columnist Bob Macdonald, managing director of Safety Power Group, says it is relatively simple to turn a DC power supply into a versatile testing tool

Tonight students from Imperial College will attempt to drive their electric vehicle twice around the M25 on a single charge. Inspiration for the trial came from...

Chip maker Maxim is sponsoring OptaMotive, a Silicon Valley start-up that is building an electric vehicle (EV) to compete for a $10m competition...

Battery-powered devices traditionally use 20V rated chips, but for LED backlighting applications with series connection of white LEDs, voltages need to be boosted to higher levels leading to maximum drain-source voltage requirements of 60V

Power isolation devices are achieving higher performance specifications due to improved package designs, writes Richard Wilson.  Recent optocoupler announcements form Avago Technologies and Isocom confirm the importance of good package design in high-voltage power systems. Avago has designed a digital optocoupler with an insulation voltage rating of 1,768V. This tops the previous insulation voltage rating of 1,400V and so will ...

STMicroelectronics has teamed up with Infineon energy harvesting spin-off Micropelt to develop a thermally-powered wireless sensor evaluation kit. The TE-Power Node combines Micropelt's Seebeck thermogenerator...