The pace of innovation has changed. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can no longer take years to introduce new products or update functionality in existing products. If your customers can’t get what they want, when they want it, they’re quick to go elsewhere.
OEMs in nearly every industry are becoming...
Published: Sep 25, 2020
Advanced capacitors based on conductive polymers maximize performance and reliability.
Capacitors may seem simple enough, but specifying them has actually grown more complex in recent years. The reason why comes down to freedom of choice. The universe of capacitors has expanded greatly over the past few years, in...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Brushed DC ironless motors are found in a large variety of products and applications such as medical, robotics, factory automation, security and access, civil aviation and aerospace products.
This article is a brief technical introduction on ironless DC motors. It is intended to help engineers better understand the...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
High-voltage power management ICs, such as TI’s LM5000 series of integrated controllers and regulators, can simplify the design of high-voltage power management solutions
This paper presents various application scenarios where high-voltage capability up to 100V is required and explains how high-voltage power...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Energy Harvesting (EH) is the process of electronically capturing and accumulating energy from a variety of energy sources deemed wasted or otherwise said to be unusable for any practical purpose. Energy harvesting, or energy scavenging as the process is sometimes referred to, is associated with capturing residual energy...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
This paper discusses the challenges and success factors for creating the world’s first integrated MEMS gyroscopes for the consumer electronics market. A disruptive MEMS processing platform called Nasiri-Fabrication is described which has enabled Motion Processing applications, creating the largest and fastest growing...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
This white paper discusses the industry’s most commonly used interface standards, RS-232 and RS-485, reviews the functionality and features of a dual protocol transceiver, and discusses multi-protocol application examples, including the industrial PC.
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Published: Jul 17, 2018
Magnetic Hall effect sensors prevail in position sensing applications across a variety of markets. This is a result of the robust, versatile, cost effective and non-contact performance of Hall effect sensors. Growth in the use of these sensors has been steady for several decades. The expected annual revenue generated by...
Published: Nov 02, 2018
As a leading supplier of logic products to the automotive industry, NXP Semiconductors focuses on quality: quality of product, quality of supply and quality of support. Quality that is perfectly represented by their Q100 logic range — proven either by decades of reliable use in automotive applications or by...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
This white paper describes the performance and characteristics of two new ultra low noise LNAs from Skyworks. Topics include techniques used in biasing and matching these devices. A circuit description, including information on thermal considerations, is also addressed.
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Published: Jul 20, 2018
Discover what Silicon Carbide technology means for the future of the power electronics industry.
Our white paper, State of the SiC MOSFET: Device evolution, technology merit, and commercial prospects, traces the evolution of these devices over the last few decades and offers an overview of their commercial prospects...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices
using the complete system impractical.
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently.
During HIL test, the physical system that interfaces...
Published: May 01, 2019
To meet the consumer's ever-increasing demand for faster, more advanced technology, design engineers are creating systems that maximize power while minimizing space. Yet this additional power provides design engineers with a new problem that is heat.
Without a proper cooling mechanism, a system can overheat and...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
A transition to 400 VDC in power distribution and conversion will help meet greenhouse gas, efficiency, and renewable-energy goals.
The pressure throughout the energy supply chain to deliver electrical power more efficiently is intense and growing. Most dramatically, the European Union’s response to the Copenhagen...
Published: Jul 23, 2018