Benning Power Electronics announced its participation in the UTDesign program in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. This highly-respected program partners a team of senior-level computer science students with a specific project requested by a corporation. The work done through this corporate partnership is the […]
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2.5A CurrentPath Charger IC Enables Safe, Ultrafast Charging in Smartphones and Tablets
San Jose, Calif. – December 08, 2011 – Summit Microelectronics has expanded its fourth-generation family of programmable Li-Ion battery charger integrated circuits (ICs) with the introduction of two new products. The SMB346 and SMB347 deliver up to 2.5A charge/system current with dual input/dual output CurrentPath technology for operation with a dead or missing battery. Dual […]
Exar Corporation Announces Appointment of Louis DiNardo as President and CEO
Exar Corp. announced that Louis DiNardo will join the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on January 3, 2012. He will replace interim President and Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Leza. In addition, DiNardo will become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors on January 3, 2012. DiNardo brings over […]
Increases in Semiconductor Sales Set to Drive Power Electronics Growth
The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization’s Autumn 2011 global semiconductor sales forecast projects that semiconductor sales will grow to $302 billion this year, reaching the $300 billion level for the first time, representing a 1.3% growth over the record-breaking sales in 2010. Beyond 2011, the industry is on track to grow steadily and modestly […]
US and EU Extend Collaboration Agreement
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Deeply Depleted Channel Technology Enables Significant Power Reduction and CMOS Scaling
SuVolta, a developer of scalable low-power CMOS technologies, disclosed details of its Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low-power transistor technology at IEDM 2011. SuVolta’s DDC technology – a component of its PowerShrink low-power CMOS platform – provides the industry with a low-power device technology that has been demonstrated to reduce power consumption by 50 percent without […]
Imec presents MEMS energy harvester suitable for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires
Washington, DC, and Leuven, Belgium – December 7, 2011 – At today’s 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Imec and Holst Centre announced that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is also suited for shock-induced energy harvesting […]
The Tinker’s Toolbox – Peter Green of International Rectifier on Driving Solid-State Lighting
Hosted by Alix Paultre, the Tinker’s Toolbox is the Advantage Design Group’s web-based interview show where we talk about the latest technology, components, and design issues for the electronic design engineering community. In this podcast we talk to Peter Green of International Rectifier about solid-state lighting and the circuits needed to drive them. The company […]
3-Phase Uninterruptible Power Supply Boasts High Efficiency
Staco Energy Products Company introduces the latest addition to their popular FirstLine P family of parallelable three-phase Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) with a new 65kVA model. Developed in response to customer demand for a lower kVA version of their native 480VAC product family, this unit is up to 98% efficient, which reduces total cost of […]
Arista Power Files Lawsuit Against Ultralife Corporation Seeking Damages in Excess of $60 Million
Arista Power, Inc., a manufacturer, designer and integrator of renewable energy generation, management and distribution systems, announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Ultralife Corp. and certain of its officers, directors and employees alleging, among other things, Fraud, Unfair Competition, Misappropriation of Trade Secrets and Breach of Contract. The lawsuit, which was filed in […]