In its seventh year, Design World’s LEAP Awards showcase the best engineering innovations across several design categories. This wouldn’t be possible without the commitment and support of the engineering community. The editorial team assembles OEM design engineers and academics each year to create an independent judging panel. Below is their selection for this year’s LEAP […]
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Empower Semiconductor wins coveted 2022 Leap Award
Empower Semiconductor, Milpitas, Calif., has won an honorable mention in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards for product innovation. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Empower won in the category of power electronics, which covers power supplies, transistors and any other power electronic circuits, components or […]
Silicon capacitors sport higher density than MLCCs
Empower Semiconductor has announced that it has expanded its E-CAP family of silicon capacitors with new technologies that offer further breakthroughs in density and performance. Integrating multiple discrete capacitances into a single solid-state device, E-CAP is the world’s thinnest, most compact, and most flexible capacitor solution. The technology brings together a capacitor density that is […]
Power voltage regulators sport fast transient response time
Empower Semiconductor announced they have achieved the world’s fastest transient response times in the Integrated Voltage Regulator family of Power Management devices. The Empower IVR EP7010 is a 10A Regulator that can regulate through a load step from zero to 10A in 500ns with <15mv droop, with NO output capacitors! Empower Semi’s patented digitally configurable […]
Capacitor technology combines multiple cap values on single die
Empower Semiconductor announced a breakthrough with the highest performance, most configurable, and smallest commercially available range of capacitors. E-CAP is a vastly superior performing capacitor, far exceeding the semiconductor industry’s previously leading Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC). The capacitor is one of the most basic and fundamental components in electronics needed for energy storage and supply […]
Triple-output dc/dc supply sits in single 5×5-mm package
Empower Semiconductor announced the EP70xx family of power management ICs that the company maintains will provide significant energy savings in data centers with the single biggest point-of-load power performance disruption in over a decade. With its revolutionary product platform, the EP70xx, Empower has achieved the total integration of a triple output DC/DC power supply with […]
