Solardyne Corp. (Portland, OR) recently announced the new Solar Power Pack, a portable solar power generation system. Solardyne claims that the Solar Power Pack, which weighs 22 pounds, fits in a backpack and provides users with the tools they need to provide 120Wh of power each day. The unit can be used to power electronics […]
Power Paper Ltd. (Israel) has developed Power Paper, a new battery technology that allows open-celled batteries to be printed on paper or...
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) launched a new series of constant-current switched capacitor power converters, LM2791-H/L and LM2792-H/L. These converters are designed for white LED display lighting and can power both backlight and frontlight LEDs found in color displays for mobile handsets, PDAs and digital cameras. Designed to regulate multiple outputs matched to within […]
Taiyo Yuden Inc.'s (San Marcos, CA) power systems group announces the Model LS650, an ultra-compact cold-cathode fluorescent tube (CCFT) inverter for brightness...
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced an addition to their sub-1V IC family. The new NCS2001 is a low-power, rail-to-rail input and output CMOS operational amplifier that provides sub-1V interfaces, active filters, PCMCIA cards, ASIC input drivers and DSP interfaces. The NCS2001 is housed in a SOT-23-5 package with two industry-standard pinouts. Additional features of the […]
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) recently introduced PolyTect Soft Molding, an engineering-grade polymer for overmolding fully-populated printed circuit boards. AVX claims that PolyTect allows for a one-step process that molds a single piece, replacing the typical application consisting of a two-piece plastic housing and conventional potting. PolyTect Soft Molding can be used to protect fully-populated […]
Moltech Power Systems (Gainesville, FL) has expanded its power options for portable electronics with its newest lithium-ion standard battery pack. The NI2040A17,...
Duracell (Bethel, CT) recently introduced the Duracell Ultra CR-V3. An extension to the Duracell Ultra line of photo lithium batteries, the CR-V3 was designed to meet the power demands of the growing number of CR-V3 compatible digital cameras. The company claims that the new battery lasts up to twice as long as any other commercially […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) has expanded its engineering capabilities and dc/dc power management integrated circuit (IC) product lines with the acquisition of Unisem Inc., completed on January 5, 2001. Among the new products IR acquired with Unisem are switching control ICs and LDO regulators, which the company claims meet or exceed voltage and […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) and Ideas Electronics (Singapore), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enersave Holdings Ltd., recently collaborated to develop a new line of electronic ballasts (ECGs), the Multi-Lamp ECGs. Available in single, twin and dimming versions, the new ECGs allow one ballast to be deployed on lamps with different wattages. Ideas Electronics claims […]
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC, San Jose, CA) announced the addition of advanced lithium batteries (ALB) to its line-up of rechargeable batteries. Combining the flexibility of lithium polymer technology with the high-energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries, Toshiba claims that the new ALBs reduce the cell thickness to as low as 1mm. In addition, […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the expansion of its fast recovery epitaxial diode (FRED) family to include four new 400V...
di/dt Inc. (Carlsbad, CA), which recently launched the Q Series of quarter-brick dc/dc converters, has already updated the current rating for the devices. The converters are now rated 35A and 25A, depending on the version. Claimed to be the first surface-mount converters in the quarter-brick format, these converters weigh only 27g and measure 2.3" x […]
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced the availability of a dc/dc converter that they claim extends battery usage in portable equipment powered by one or two battery packs. With an efficiency rating of 85 percent, the new NCP1402 micropower Power Factor Modulator (PFM) step-up dc/dc converter has an output voltage of 1.9V. Available in a low […]
National Semiconductor (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany) announced a new family of supervisory ICs with a variety of factory-programmable features that can be configured in hundreds of possible combinations. Housed in the chip-scale micro SMD package, the LM3700 family uses EEPROM technology and is designed to monitor power supplies in intelligent instruments, cellular phones, computers, PDAs, pagers and […]