The Internet Of Things Hits The Road
“What else is needed is the ability to learn, not just from one car’s experience but from the experience of a multitude of cars, and to be able to harness that vehicular crowd source by monitoring and accumulating data on what’s happening to other vehicles and applying predictive analytics to a spectrum of situations.”
Highly Efficient Low On-State Voltage IGBTs from IXYS
At Design West 2013, Electronic Design's Don Tuite talks with Nyan Tin from IXYS about the release of their new IGBT product line – 650V XPT Trench IGBTs. With on-stage voltages as low as 1.7V, these new eXtreme-light Punch-Through (XPT) devices are designed to minimize conduction and switching losses, especially in hard-switching applications.
Understanding LED Application Theory And Practice
For a rough comparison, the sun has a luminous efficacy of 93, and an ordinary tungsten light bulb has a luminous efficacy of 15. The best HB LEDs today hit between 130 and 150, and the rate of improvement doesn’t seem to be flattening out.
QB Avatar Telepresence Robot Lets You Go to Work Virtually
Electronic Design's Power and Analog Editor, Don Tuite, was invited to Maxim Integrated to learn more about the QB Avatar telepresence robot from Anybots. The QB Avatar enables someone to assume a virtual presence in a remote location to connect and communicate from anywhere in the world.
The Basics Of PMBus Design
The PMBus standard for digital power management is the result of collaboration between power supply and semiconductor companies.
Industry Experts Assess Power’s Frontiers
Everything you thought you knew about powering data centers is passé. The future of the grid is spelled IEC 61850, and many pieces of the infrastructure are available. And, greater efficiency and innovation are still on the way for the common ac-dc and dc-dc digital power supply.
Eric Lidow, IR Founder, 1912-2013
Eric Lidow, founder and chairman of International Rectifier from 1946 to 2008, died on Friday, January 19, 2013 at the age of 100. And though it wasn’t the way the Third Reich would have preferred it, he outlived the German High Command by more than 60 years.
