The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the availability of the Battery Charging Revision 1.0 specification. Consumers currently use USB to charge batteries on their peripheral devices. With the announcement of the new Battery Charging specification, the USB-IF Battery Charging Workgroup has defined a standard way for portable devices to draw current from wall chargers or […]
Emerson Network Power and Intel Corp. are jointly promoting the benefits of the PMBus™ digital power management standard at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, where Intel is hosting a live public demonstration of a rack of servers configured with PMBus™ compliant ac-dc power supplies from Emerson Network Power. "Power Management at a server level […]
Linear Technology Corp. introduced the LTC4264, a Power over Ethernet (PoE) interface controller for high-power Powered Device (PD) applications. The LTC4264 allows...
Dallas Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, introduced the DS3641 secure battery-backup controller, which is part of what the...
Maxim Integrated Products introduced the MAX8645X/MAX8645Y, which it claims are the smallest white-LED (WLED) drivers with two built-in LDOs for camera supply....
The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, announced plans for a technical summit to be held April 18-19 in Denver, Colorado. The summit, which will be the first since the formal launch of the organization earlier this year, is expected to produce detailed technical […]
Semtech Corp. announced the SC620 – an octal, IC-controlled LED driver. The SC620 is designed to provide regulated currents for powering a...
Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. (AnalogicTech) announced the AAT3697, an extremely high power density linear battery charger for Lithium-ion/polymer batteries. Coming in a...
ON Semiconductor has expanded its power computing portfolio with the introduction of two new dual-edge multi-phase controllers. The NCP5387 and NCP5382 multi-phase...
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Inc. (AOS) announced that it has entered the Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) market with a new family of ultra-low capacitance Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) products that provide robust ESD protection for high speed data interfaces in computing, networking, and digital consumer applications. The TVS product family was designed using advances in […]
Phihong USA announced that it had made a proposal to the most recent meeting of the IEEE802.3at task force to allow midspans used in Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) applications to put the power onto the data pair as required for Gigabit systems. "Numerous presentations to the IEEE have proven that this can be done without affecting the […]
austriamicrosystems AG announced a further expansion of its 0.35µm SiGe-BiCMOS (S35) process technology with the availability of a set of additional 12V devices. This new extension allows the integration of 2.7, 3.3, 5 and 12V devices on a single chip without any process changes. The new 12V devices are a modular extension of austriamicrosystems’ 0.35µm […]
SynQor Corp. announced the release of further additions to its DOSA compliant sixteenth brick family in a 1.3" x 0.9" footprint. The...
Crane Aerospace & Electronics announced a new interpoint dc-dc converter that can power both digital and analog systems with one converter. The...
The High Density Packaging (HDP) User Group announced the launch of what is claimed to be industry’s first Board Mounted Power Supply (BMPS) Application Guidelines. The 148-page document is designed to support the communications and electronics manufacturing industry by promoting understanding of BMPS products. Originally started as a project within the Power Sources Manufacturers Association […]