Two key factors in maximizing power converter performance and successful power system design are thermal environment and heat management. Power densities are increasing faster than power converter efficiency; thus increased performance from thermal management solutions is required.
Products based on Vicor’s...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
To guarantee the correct behavior of real-time software running on embedded processors can pose a significant challenge. Data-dependent control flow, where execution times of many functions are dependent on the data inputs, means that instruction sequences are hard to predict.
This document explains how static timing...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
In this white paper eGaN FET technology is applied in a high frequency resonant converter. Previously, the advantages provided by eGaN FETs in hard switching isolated and non-isolated applications were addressed.
This paper will demonstrate the ability of the eGaN FET to improve efficiency and output power density...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Credit, debit and ATM card fraud costs consumers, merchants and financial institutions billions in losses every year. The payment card industry has responded by creating the PCI security standard. Merchants that fail to comply with PCI face increased risk of security breaches and substantial contractual penalties.
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Published: Jul 25, 2018
With the recent rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), 14 billion devices are now connected. However, the growth of this is also significant, by 2020 it is predicted that over 50 billion devices will be connected. With these devices connected, systems are opened up for remote access and control. In turn, this has shown...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, cost effective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Vicor’s new Factorized...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
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Infineon's AURIX™ microcontroller family is equipped with many safety features and functionalities. Hitex, an AURIX™ Preferred Design House provides a white paper where you can learn how these powerful...
Published: Nov 25, 2020
For applications requiring high power density and high power, but not requiring electrical isolation, the buck converter has been the workhorse topology for many years. Improvements in buck converters over the past few years have been limited by the power MOSFET’s sedate switching speeds.
In this paperEPC...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers.
The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no easy way...
Published: May 01, 2019
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
Lattice Semiconductor has developed a display interface in the MachXO2 PLD family. Because this interface is now supported in MachXO2 devices, designers have an even lower cost and very low power alternative to implement embedded displays.
This whitepaper provides an overview of this display standard and explain...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
In this white paper EPC continues our exploration of optimization issues and look at the impact of dead-time on system efficiency for eGaN® FETs and MOSFETs.
Previously published articles showed that eGaN FETs behave similarly to silicon devices and can be evaluated using the same performance metrics....
Published: Jul 25, 2018
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, cost effective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Traditional power architectures cannot,...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
A wide range of microcontroller development kits are available for engineers who are starting projects which will incorporate an MCU (also sometimes abreviated uC).
These kits are designed by companies such as Analog Devices, Cypress Semiconductor, Freescale,Fujitsu,Infineon,Maxim,Microchip Technology, STMicroelectronics,...
Published: Jul 23, 2018