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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Industry News Stories for 2015: 20-11
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most-read Industry News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the fourth article in the series, which will conclude tomorrow. #20: 600V / 120A GaN […]
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Automotive Electronics
Digital Power Established and Emerging in 2015
Digital Power technology has entered its second decade. It is at the same time an established and an emerging technology. The relative maturity of digital power can be seen in the combined use of digital control with SiC power switches in high-power uninterruptible power supplies and in ROHM’s acquisition of Powervation aimed to enable the […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Top 10 PowerViews Technology Articles for 2015
The Top 10 PowerViews articles for 2015 are listed below in chronological order. Companies represented in these articles include (in order) Murata Power Solutions, STMiroelectronics, Keithley Instruments, EPCOS AG, AVX, KEMET Electronics, Sarda Technologies, TESLAco, Elektrotechnisches Institut at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Ericsson Power Modules. New Solutions and Challenges for Digital Control of Power […]
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Automotive Electronics
Top 10 Power Modules Products for 2015
The trends in power modules reflect larger trends in the overall industry including the growing adoption of silicon-carbide devices and the emergence of the Internet of things. Four of the top-10 modules include SiC devices including three in the top ten. Those three are offered by ROHM, Fuji Electric and jointly from Panasonic and Sansha. […]
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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Product News Stories for 2015: 30-21
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most read Product News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the Third article in the series, which will continue tomorrow. #30: SiC Module jointly-developed […]
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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Industry News Stories for 2015: 30-21
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most-read Industry News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the third article in the series, which will continue tomorrow. #30: 260kW Motor reduces Weight […]
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Automotive Electronics
IoT Emerges and Impacts Power Designs
The Internet of things (IoT) and the related Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) are emerging and impacting the design of power systems for a variety of applications from motor controllers to large-scale wind farms, to milliWatt energy harvesting devices. In addition, man-machine interface and data communications will be important in these systems. As will security […]
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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Product News Stories for 2015: 40-31
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most read Product News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the second article in the series, which will continue tomorrow. #40: High-speed MOSFET Drivers […]
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696ComponentsFull-Bridge PWM Gate Driver ICs for DC Brushed Motors
Allegro MicroSystems, LLC introduces a new family of full-bridge gate driver ICs designed to drive a wide range of dc brushed motors...
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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Industry News Stories for 2015: 40-31
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most-read Industry News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the second article in the series, which will continue tomorrow. #40 ROHM Acquires Powervation for […]
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Automotive Electronics
Expanding Applications for SiC in 2015
Silicon Carbide was used in a growing variety of end-use applications last year from a 70W notebook adapter power supply to 500kVa uninterruptible power supplies to 1500Vdc-input railcar traction inverters. And to support that expanding applications base, a wide variety of SiC devices and modules were introduced in the past 12 months including an ac-dc […]
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Automotive Electronics
Wireless Power Adoption Accelerates
Wireless power is a “hot” emerging technology. It is being used or proposed for a wide range of applications from mobile phone handsets to electric vehicles and buses. Platforms emerged that support all three major standards, Qi, PMA and A4WP Rezence, at power levels up to 100W. In November, the Airfuel Alliance was announced combining […]
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Automotive Electronics
Power Mergers and Acquisitions in 2015
During the past year, the global semiconductor industry has seen a tsunami of merger and acquisition activity. The power semiconductor sector was no exception. Consolidation was global ranging from the $40 billion merger/acquisition between Europe’s NXP and Freescale in the U.S. to Japan’s ROHM spending $70 million to acquire Ireland’s Powervation and its digital power […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Efficient Power Conversion – Readers’ Choice Company of the Year
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) has captured the title “Readers’ Choice Company of the Year.” This selection is based on EPC’s domination of the 50 most-read product news stories for 2015. EPC products account 8 of the top 50 product stories for 2015 (as measured by readership). This is the first time that a single […]
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Automotive Electronics
50 Most-Read Product News Stories for 2015: 50-41
The following is a listing (with links for the full story) of the most-read Product News stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2015, thus providing a window into the “pulse” of the trends and interests in the Power Electronics Industry. This is the first article in the series, which will continue tomorrow. #50: GaN Power Switches with […]
