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Automotive Electronics
Texas Instruments Cuts Ribbon on $2.2 Million Engineering Lab at UC Berkeley
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and the University of California, Berkeley today opened the doors to a state-of-the-art electronics teaching lab. A $2.2 million gift from TI helped transform the existing lab into the Electronics Design Laboratory, designed to encourage ingenuity among undergraduate engineering students. “The new lab is an engaging learning environment for hands-on engineering, […]
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837Communications PowerPower Factor Controller Provides Low THD Plus Maximum Efficiency over Wide Voltage Ranges
Intersil Corporation has introduced a new active power factor controller that delivers minimal harmonic distortion (THD) and high power factor (PF) correction....
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1.0KAutomotive ElectronicsToshiba Starts SiC Power Device Volume Production, Aims for 30% Market Share
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced that Toshiba Corporation has started volume production of silicon-carbide (SiC) power devices, in anticipation of growing...
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Energy Efficiency
Low-Cost Wireless Meter Challenge to be Announced by U.S. DOE
Following the model of the U.S. Department of Energy‘s (DOE’s) Better Buildings Alliance Rooftop Unit Challenge, DOE’s Better Buildings Alliance Technology Solutions Team will soon be issuing the Low-cost Wireless Meter Challenge to industry to produce a cost-effective, wireless metering system capable of electrical energy measurement at various locations in a building and wireless communication […]
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Components
ABB Launches Low-Voltage Breaker for Energy Management and Smart Grid
ABB has launched Emax 2, the world’s first low-voltage circuit breaker with integrated energy management functions. Replacing existing traditional breakers with the Emax 2 breaker has the potential to achieve annual savings of 5.8 million megawatt-hours (MWh), or the electric consumption equivalent of 1.4 million US households per year. These energy savings would reduce emissions […]
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Energy Efficiency
California Requires 50MW of Energy Storage for Local Capacity Requirements
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved a long-term procurement decision ordering Southern California Edison (SCE) to procure between 1,400 and 1,800 megawatts of energy resource capacity in the Los Angeles basin to meet long term local capacity requirements by 2021. Of this amount, at least 50 MW is required by the CPUC to […]
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675Automotive ElectronicsTektronix Delivers New Precision Multi-Phase Power Analyzer
Tektronix, Inc. today announced its new precision multi-phase Power Analyzer. Featuring the industry’s first Spiral Shunt™ design (patent application submitted), the Tektronix...
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509Automotive ElectronicsAVL Automotive Varistors Offer High Current and High Energy Handling
Stackpole Electronics, Inc., through its strategic alliance with KEKO Varicon, announces the AVL Series of radial leaded automotive varistors that are designed...
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844ComponentsCamSemi Adds Low-Cost, Flexible Approach for LED Lamps to 20W
Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd. (CamSemi) has announced a new high-performance LED driver IC that will provide manufacturers with greater design flexibility in their...
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830Batteries and Portable PowerOver-Voltage Protection in “Smallest” Surface-Mount Package
STMicroelectronics, Inc.has introduced the world's smallest TVS diode for protecting sensitive electronics in consumer products and handhelds. According to STMicro, this is...
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898Batteries and Portable PowerTouchstone Introduces 0.8V to 5.5V, Rail-to-Rail Single Op Amps in SC70
Touchstone Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that it has added two new, micropower operational amplifiers (op amps) to its "NanoWatt Analog" high-performance analog...
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Energy Efficiency
Milbank and Sentec Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Smart Energy Products
Milbank Manufacturing Company and Sentec, Ltd. have today announced a strategic partnership to research and develop new products and business ideas for smart grid and demand response applications. Sentec has previously been involved with Milbank in the capacity of product development consultancy, and this takes their business relationship forward to a new model. Previous developments […]
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Communications Power
Eltek Consolidates Industrial Power System Manufacturing Activities to Slovakia Facility
Eltek AStoday announced consolidation of its manufacturing activities for industrial power systems to its state-of-the-art production hub in Liptovsky Hradok, Slovakia. The news was made at the Hannover Messe trade show (8-12 April; Hannover, Germany). The new facility has a high production capacity of 7,000 systems per month on a single shift and features state-of-the-art […]
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Motion Control
Universal Sinewave Filter Provides Harmonic Mitigation for Variable-Frequency Drives
The launch of Mirus International‘s Inversine advanced universal sinewave filter (AUSF) marks a significant step forward in harmonic mitigation technology. The Inversine AUSF provides motor protection against the degrading effects of reflected wave phenomenon that cause motor winding failure, cable insulation degradation and high electromagnetic interference (EMI/RFI). The Inversine AUSF is engineered to transform the […]
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1.8KAutomotive Electronics600V GaN Normally-Off “Gate Injection” Power Transistor Intro’d by Panasonic
Panasonic Corporation has developed a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V which "enables stable switching operations."...
