Texas Instruments (TI, Dallas, TX) unveiled a new family of battery chargers, the bq2400x, intended to allow designers to reduce the size...
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) is releasing the FXC/FXP Series of stand-alone or rack-mounted power systems, which provide ac front-end capability to telecom, data communications and other distributed-power designs. Both the FXC and FXP systems may be paralleled up to 180kW of output power. However, the FXC family is intended for chassis-mounted installations with bolted connections […]
Texas Instruments (TI, Dallas, TX) is announcing a new Power Minder IC, the bq2019, a battery monitor, which they claim will allow...
Dallas Semiconductor (Dallas, TX) announced the DS2760 lithium-ion battery monitor, which they claim is the industry's first high-performance fuel gauge internal circuit...
Sanyo Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) will start selling a thin, prismatic, lithium-ion, secondary battery, the UF383450P, in October 2000. The 3.5mm thick battery is, Sanyo claims, the thinnest lithium-ion battery available on the market. The company plans to manufacture one-million units per month, and to target use for mobile phones. The UF383450P has a capacity […]
ABB Electricity Metering (Zurich, Switzerland) announces its new Power Quality and Outage Event Manager for ABB's EnergyAxis AMR Server. As part of the ABB EnergyAxis Server, the Power Quality and Outage Event Manager reads power outage, outage restoration and power-quality information from the meter on request, on a scheduled basis or during an alarm call-in. […]
The new Intergy R5848 single-phase rectifier from Invensys Energy Systems (Phoenix, AZ) was introduced at the recent Intelec 2000 show in Phoenix....
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the extension of its line of low-voltage HEXFET power MOSFETs targeted at automotive applications. The...
DTMagnetics (Dover, NH) introduced a new catalog-standard FET/IGBT gate drive transformer. The new device, called a Mini Gate Drive Transformer (MGDT), is...
Cherokee International LLC (Tustin, CA) recently released its VRM 8.4 regulator module. The new CVRM 8.4 represents the most recent addition to the company's line of catalog dc/dc products. Cherokee's CVRM 8.4 regulator modules are designed to meet the power-condition requirements of the Intel Pentium II Xeon and Pentium III Xeon processor-based systems. The CVRM […]
Invensys Energy Systems (Phoenix, AZ) introduced Foreseer, a facilities management software that delivers a pro-active management system for operators that includes historical graphs and data, trend analysis, and reporting. It will also provide multi-vendor connectivity for power and environmental equipment across multiple facilities, an online database for trending, data analysis and multi-channel graphing for up […]
Condor Inc. (Oxnard, CA) introduced the new GLD140 and GLD150 medical power supplies. Both series offer power-factor correction for use in systems for worldwide applications. Condor claims that the new models were designed with conservative derating and design margins in order to ensure reliable operation in all medical systems. The GLD150 is a single-output power-supply […]
Ericsson Microelectronics (Stockholm, Sweden) is introducing the MacroDens 13W PKF 4110B dc/dc power module, which offers a true component level on-board solution...
Emerson Energy Systems (Stockholm, Sweden) announced the launching of Actura, a range of power systems with a high power factor and efficiency...
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) has extended its MPU150 ac/dc power series by introducing the MPU150-3524, a low-profile, triple-output power solution intended for systems requiring 1U height constraints. With a main output of 5V at 17.5A and a 12V output at 4A, the MPU150-3524 provides flexibility by allowing the use of dc/dc converters and industrial controls. […]