Guest blog by Karim Wassef, general manager — Embedded Systems, GE Critical Power business How often have you read a corporate website or mission statement that says something…
USB-based real-time spectrum analyzers hit 7.5 GHz with 40 MHz capture bandwidth
USB-based real-time spectrum analyzers target design, spectrum management and wireless transmitter installation and maintenance applications. The new RSA500 and RSA600 series of analyzers from Tektronix offer frequency coverage…
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Multi-phase power analyzer features milliwatt standby power measurements and 1-MHz bandwidth
A 1- to 4-channel ac/dc power analyzer is said to be optimized for testing single- and multi-phase, high efficiency ac-dc and dc-ac power supply designs. Developed by Tektronix,…
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Teardown video: Inside a transformerless solar inverter
We recently had a chance to look inside a transformerless solar inverter from Fronius. The video gives an overview of what we found. Among the more interesting bits…
Things are smaller in Belgium: Belgian team wins Little Box Challenge for solar inverters
A team from CE+T Power in Belgium has won the Little Box Challenge, a competition to invent a 3x smaller inverter for interconnecting solar power systems to the…
Indium phosphide chips expected to deliver real-time scopes with bandwidths above 100 GHz
Keysight Technologies, Inc. says it has successfully tested new chipsets that take advantage of the firm’s indium phosphide (InP) semiconductor technology. Keysight expects the new chipsets will help…
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Measuring wireless charging efficiency in the real world
by John Perzow, Wireless Power Consortium When it comes to energy efficiency, there are significant differences in competing wireless charging methods. There are a lot of claims made about the…
GaN components boost power density in supplies
by Eric Persson, Infineon Technologies To understand why gallium-nitride components shrink the size of power supplies, examine how they dissipate energy at high frequencies. Silicon power FETs have…
How and when MOSFETs blow up
by Majeed Ahmad High temperatures and operating conditions outside the safe operating area can sabotage MOSFETs used in switching circuits. The MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) is a primary…
Test instruments help tame power factor and signal integrity
by Simran Nanda, Keysight Technologies Harmonic analysis helps design electronics that will behave well on the power grid. Electronics that include switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and VFDs depend on…