Cherokee International announced its CAR2500 series of front end/rectifiers for network routers and switches, enterprise servers, telecommunications equipment, and industrial ATE applications....
Intellon Corp. announced that it has raised $18 million in new equity financing from Samsung Ventures. Intellon will use the new funds to accelerate the global rollout of its HomePlug® AV compatible ICs and to develop innovative new products. Building on the company’s existing line of HomePlug 1.0 compatible ICs that are already being used […]
President George W. Bush has signed legislation directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study energy use in data centers. The bill, passed by the Senate on December 8, authorizes the EPA to analyze the growth of energy consumption at data centers. The issue is a growing concern to companies that operate large groups of […]
Analog Devices, Inc. announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Silicon Laboratories Inc. The complaint alleges that Silicon Labs’ Si84xx family of products infringe multiple U.S. patents addressing physical construction and signaling techniques related to ADI’s iCoupler® digital isolation products, and that SiLabs […]
austriamicrosystems announced that it will produce Design of Systems on Silicon‘s (DS2) advanced analog chip DSS7800. The new analog chip developed by DS2, a leading supplier of silicon and software for Power line Communications (PLC) conforms to the Universal Powerline Association’s (UPA) global powerline standards and is the basis for development of more compact, lower […]
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced the VO3052 and VO3053, two new non-zero-crossing 1.5kV/µs dV/dt phototriac optocouplers designed to isolate low-voltage logic from ac...
Linear Technology Corp. introduced the LTC4307, an I2C bus buffer with low offset and stuck bus recovery that is intended to significantly...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced its TPS23841, which the company claims is the industry’s first fully integrated power-over-Ethernet (PoE) management device for power source equipment (PSE) that allows multiport enterprise systems to deliver up to 25W of power over a standard Ethernet cable, nearly twice the capability of previous generation systems. Working from a 21.5 […]
Power Efficiency Corp. announced that it closed on $3.2 million in equity and $2.0 million in debt financing. Investors in the financing included members of management and the board of directors, an energy-focused hedge fund, and a number of highly accomplished individuals. The equity financing included sales of units comprised of two shares of common […]
Powervation Ltd. announced that Jeff Purchon has joined the company as Vice President of Global Sales. In this role, Purchon will oversee...
Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. announced the AAT2842, a 600mA charge pump with dual low dropout linear regulators (LDOs) for portable systems operating...
Emerging government policies in Asia, Europe and North America are expected to help drive the adoption of digital power technologies, according to the latest analysis from Darnell Group, Inc. Several recent developments in government policies, combined with the maturing nature of digital power conversion, are converging to accelerate the adoption of digital power in a […]
Atmel® Corp. announced the AT89C51RE2, a new 8O51-based microcontroller with 128Kb of Flash program memory. The device is an addition to the existing 16, 32, and 64Kb 8O51 Flash family of AT89C51RB2/RC2/RD2/ED2 microcontrollers which have become an industry standard. The AT89C51RE2 comes with a rich feature set including 8Kb of RAM, two UARTs, watchdog timer, […]
ColdWatt Inc. has joined the Power Management Bus™ (PMBus™) Implementers Forum, declaring its commitment to the industry-standard power control protocol. ColdWatt’s modular digital architecture will be easily enhanced to be compliant with the PMBus open communications standard providing system designers with a portfolio of innovative and energy efficient digital power solutions. The PMBus protocol provides […]
Microchip Technology Inc. announced the dsPICDEM™ Buck Switch-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Development Board (Part # DM300023), which comes with sample software and...