Power conversion can often be the bane of product designers, regardless of what they are designing. In space-constrained applications such as cutting-edge IoT devices or handheld medical devices, using standard converter modules can be limited by space and discrete power conversion design can be costly and time-consuming. To help designers get their designs to market […]
The UKCA Mark – Selling Into the UK After Brexit
By Andrew Johnson, Director of Product Management The withdrawal of the UK from the European Union or “Brexit” has been a turbulent journey for both sides, concluding on December 31, 2020, with the end of the “transition period” during which negotiations have taken place on new mutual trading arrangements. One of the consequences of Brexit […]
Pushing the Boundaries of High Voltage GaN Power Conversion
10 kW Applications Gain High Efficiency Power Conversion from Highly Scaled GaN HEMTs 25% lower loss than SiC in the standard TO-247 package Authors: Carl Neufeld, Senior Member of Technical Staff & Manager, Transphorm Yifeng Wu, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Transphorm Numerous application markets from broad industrial and consumer electronics to the rapidly growing […]
The Latest on IEC 62368-1: The Time to Act Is Now
By Andrew Johnson, Director of Product Management New safety standards based on IEC 62368-1 are superseding existing standards worldwide. In a move that keeps things simple for product vendors, regulators in the US and EU have decided to harmonize the date the new standards will supplant the outgoing 60950-1 and 60065 standards. This harmonized date […]
Six Reasons You Should Use an FPGA
In this article, we’ll be focusing on why FPGAs hit the sweet spot for processing power. Before we dive too deeply into this conversation, let’s address the “elephant in the room” – everything exists for a reason, even ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), CPUs (Central Processing Unit), and GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit). ASICs provide incredible performance per watt, and are thus very efficient, but they are also much […]
Light-Cure Technology – Fueling the Automotive Electronics Revolution
Achieve Superior Performance Mile After Mile By Chris Morrissey, Sr. Manager, Automotive Electronics BD, Dymax Corporation The desire to put self-driving cars on the road and the movement toward vehicle electrification is fueling unprecedented growth in the automotive industry. In the fast-changing landscape of design and assembly, engineers are striving to create better performing, more […]
Low Pressure Filtering of a Pressure Sensor’s Input
The Problem In some applications, high-frequency pressure transients may be present that distort the sensor’s output and degrade its ability to read the underlying changes in pressure. This can especially be a problem in low-pressure applications, such as medical measurements where discerning subtle differences is essential to successful diagnosis and monitoring. A common, well-known solution […]
Reengineering the Oscilloscope for Embedded System Development
Enhancing performance without abandoning cost efficiency By Trevor J. Smith, Business Development Manager – T&M, Pico Technology As the application diversity and technical complexity of embedded systems development has exploded, the number of engineers working on new designs and the performance requirements of the lab equipment needed to verify their solutions has rapidly expanded as […]
