After being assessed and approved by QAS Ltd., the international organization for quality standardization, Sprague-Goodman Electronics (Westbury, NY) announced that it received ISO 9000 certification. The ISO 9000 certification applies to the design, manufacture and distribution of the company's lines of variable capacitors, fixed and variable inductors and transformers, tuning elements and tuning tools."To add […]
After being assessed and approved by QAS Ltd., Sprague-Goodman Electronics (Westbury, NY) announced that it received ISO 9000 certification. The ISO 9000 certification applies to the design, manufacture and distribution of the company's lines of variable capacitors, fixed and variable inductors and transformers, tuning elements, and tuning tools. "To add to our already-impressive quality portfolio, […]
Artesyn Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) has reported record sales for the three and nine months ended September 29, 2000 of $182.5 million and $506.4 million, respectively. Cash earnings, which exclude the after-tax effect of goodwill amortization, also increased to $15.0 million, or $0.37 per diluted share for the three months ended September 29, 2000 […]
Advanced Power and Controls LLC (APC, Santa Ana, CA) announced the availability of the APC3006, a new modular design redundant ac/dc power supply in a PS/2 envelope. This new supply is a hot-swappable, dual-redundant 300W ATX supply. As an added bonus, it offers high output current capability on 5V, 12V and 3V, in addition to […]
International Rectifier (El Segundo, CA) has introduced a new series of hyperfast-recovery diodes with soft-recovery waveshape. The new diodes were designed to...
Micrel Inc. (San Jose, CA) has developed the MIC4681, a surface-mount dc/dc switching converter. The newest member of Micrel's SO-8 SuperSwitcher family, the MIC4681 uses four external components. It features a 2A pulsed-output current limit that can handle the maximum currents of GSM power supplies. At the same time, the device's fused-copper lead-frame design allows […]
IDEC Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the addition of a 240W model, the PS5R-G24, to its PS5R Series of switching power supplies. This new unit features a built-in harmonic filter designed to make the device fully compliant with the EN61000-3-2 harmonic directive. Units can be paralleled together for a total output of 1,200W. The output rating […]
Switch-Mode Power Conversion, an analog electronics design course, will be held April 4-6, 2001, at the Kellogg West Center for Continuing Education at California State Polytechnic University (Pomona, CA). The course will begin with a discussion of the purpose of power conversion, and will review fundamental physical concepts, basic converter topologies and modes of operation. […]
Switch-Mode Power Conversion, an analog electronics design course, will be held April 4-6, 2001, at the Kellogg West Center for Continuing Education at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. The course will begin with a discussion of the purpose of power conversion, and will review fundamental physical concepts, basic converter topologies and modes of operation. […]
Intelec 2001 will be held October 14-18, 2001 in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. This will be the 23rd annual international conference dedicated to the exchange of information on energy and power for communication systems. Intelec 2001's theme will be "No Power, No Service, No Revenue." The conference […]
The entire AVX Corp.'s (Myrtle Beach, SC) product line catalog is now available in a revised CD-ROM version. The new Electronic Catalog System contains the latest catalog information on MLC and tantalum capacitors, power supply capacitors, resistor chips, arrays and networks, thin-film inductors, SMT fuses, transient suppressors, filters, piezos and timing devices. The CD-ROM also […]
Ericsson (Stockholm, Sweden) reported that it has struck a deal to acquire Microwave Power Devices Inc. (MPD, Hauppauge, NY) in a stock deal worth approximately $200 million dollars.Ericsson will pay $8.70 per MPD share and will commence a cash tender offer for all outstanding MPD shares within the next 10 days. Although MPD's board has […]
Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT, Bend, OR) announced that the APT board of directors has appointed Robert C. Pearson as a Director. Mr. Pearson has over 30 years of financial experience in the semiconductor and high-technology industry and is a senior vice president with Renaissance Capital Group (Greenwich, CT).Previous to his post at Renaissance Capital, […]
C&D Technologies (Blue Bell, PA) announced that its board of directors approved a capital spending plan for fiscal 2002 of $75 million dollars. This is an increase of 50 percent over the current fiscal year capital budget of roughly $50 million. This budget will include capacity expansions in the company's industrial battery and power electronics […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) has extended its MPU150 ac/dc power series by introducing the single-output MPU150-S261, a 48V power solution with single-wire current share. Designed to meet 1U height constraints, this model provides 3.75A of networking, distributed power and industrial systems. The active PFC of the MPU150-S261 complies with the requirements of European line-harmonics standard […]