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March 7, 2013

  • Feb. 18, 2013
    Article

    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....More
  • Jan. 31, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Improved Power ICs Give Supply Designers More Bang for The Buck 6

    MOSFETs and IGBTs are making impressive performance advances. Improved compound semiconductor materials like GaN and SiC also are poised for market entry....More
  • Feb. 20, 2013
    Article

    The Basics Of PMBus Design

    The PMBus standard for digital power management is the result of collaboration between power supply and semiconductor companies....More
  • Jan. 31, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Design Touchscreen-Based Handheld Systems For Low Power Consumption 1

    Keep an eye on how your system operates in four key modes—active power, sleep, deep sleep, and hibernate—to improve power efficiency....More
  • Mar. 6, 2013
    White Paper
    Electronic Design

    Design FAQ: The Path To High-Performance NAND Flash

    How can I take advantage of NAND flash? NAND flash is available in a number of configurations ranging from raw NAND flash to Universal Flash Storage (UFS)...More
  • Feb. 21, 2013
    Commentary
    Electronic Design

    New Ways To Charge Up Your Mobile Devices 1

    A hands on look at three devices that supply power to smartphones and tablets--a power bar, a portable fuel cell and a wall socket....More
  • Feb. 11, 2013
    Commentary
    Electronic Design

    What Is An Autoranging Power Supply?

    Autoranging power supplies, sometimes simply called autorangers, are designed to provide a greater range of operation than a typical supply. If the maximum volts times maximum amps is greater than maximum watts, you have an autoranger....More
  • Feb. 5, 2013
    Commentary
    Electronic Design

    With Proper Isolation, You Won’t Need To Do The Safety Dance Around High Voltages 2

    By incorporating modern CMOS isolation devices into new high-voltage consumer devices, manufacturers can ensure that their smaller, improved systems don’t give end users a nasty shock....More
  • Jan. 31, 2013
    Commentary
    Electronic Design

    Market Shift From Laptops To Tablets Affects Battery Design-Ins 1

    The laptop market has benefitted from the industry's standard use of 18650 batteries. The growing consumer preference for tablets over laptops, though, will disrupt that supply stability....More
  • Jan. 15, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Manhattan And Mr. Spock Offer Lessons In 3D FinFET Design

    Also known as 3D transistors, FinFETs provide a significant speed boost while cutting dynamic power in half and static power by as much as 90%. They're also the next big thing in low-power computing....More
  • Feb. 14, 2013
    blog

    Low-Power Design Enables PoE Networking 2

    Power consumption is on everyone’s specification checklist these days. Minimal power consumption means longer use between charges for smart phones, tablets, and laptops. It also means not having to liquid-cool thousands of cores in high-performance computing (HPC) systems. And, it means that devices can be wired and powered using different technologies like Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)....More
  • Feb. 14, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

    Bench evaluation of transistors’ hFE may be needed during development of a system to ensure reliability of production systems. This circuit permits such testing using pulsed current and the biasing requirements set by transistor manufacturers....More
  • Feb. 15, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Multiple Power Supplies Fortify High-Side Gate Control

    A switching power supply was devised to ensure high-side FET gate control, particularly in light of a wildly floating high-side rail. The design’s “VeeDrive” delivers a sharp and muscular square-wave that’s robust enough to drive several charge pumps....More
  • Feb. 19, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    High-Side Switch Provides Overvoltage Protection With Only Four Components

    Low-voltage microcontrollers often need to control higher-voltage loads via high-side switching. This simple two-transistor circuit enables that control and provides over-voltage protection....More
  • Feb. 20, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Add Short-Circuit Protection, Diagnostics To Automotive High-Side/Low-Side Driver

    Smart switches for automotive applications are costly, may not be readily available for 24-V operation, and often come in unneeded dual and quad configurations. By adding a few standard, low-cost components to a basic driver, you can make a smarter one which includes short-circuit protection and built-in diagnostics....More
  • Feb. 6, 2013
    Article

    Chips Let Electric Car Makers Modularize Battery Packs

    Modules are valuable because, otherwise, fitting 16 kWh worth of batteries into a single compartment would be problematic....More
  • Feb. 8, 2013
    Article

    Improved Real-Time Spectrum Analysis Reveals The Mysteries Of RF Signals

    Wireless systems continue to get more complex with their high speeds, wide bandwidth, short bursts, frequency hopping, and sophisticated modulation schemes, making them more difficult than ever to test. Measuring and detecting signals from these systems has become the number one challenge of the design and test engineer....More
  • Jan. 24, 2013
    Product

    PLL Synthesizer Offers High Output Frequency And Lowest Phase Noise 5

    The Texas Instruments LMX2581 phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer integrates a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that covers from 50 to 3760 MHz and offers perhaps the best phase-noise specification around....More
  • Feb. 11, 2013
    Article
    Electronic Design

    Power Your Wireless Sensors For 40 Years

    Battery replacement often is difficult or impossible in remote sensing systems. LiSOCl2 batteries can extend the time between service calls to decades....More
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