Power and Power Management IC Reference Materials

Description: The USB-C interface is revolutionizing the way we charge our electronics devices. In addition to data transfer, USB-C supports bidirectional power flow at a much higher voltage range than traditional ...

Description: The need for higher efficiency, greater power density, lower cost and bi-directionality pose design challenges when using silicon in traditional circuit approaches. An alternative utilizing SiC ...

Description: The continual drive for greater efficiency and power density in power conversion systems is leading to the expanded use of silicon carbide (SiC). This wide-bandgap semiconductor has a dielectric ...

Description: Home appliances, which run 24h and 7 days a week, have high efficiency requirements. Therefore, the use of MOSFETs is preferred over IGBTs. Modern MOSFET technologies based on the superjunction ...

Description: The drive towards a more environmentally friendly future for automobiles reveals new challenges for engineers, from innovating solid state technology to reducing size, weight, and copper usage, to ...

Description: The dedicated material properties of SiC enable the design of minority carrier free unipolar devices instead of the charge modulated IGBT devices. ...

Description: Overcs explains how these schemes work and how to implement them in buck regulators. We will also discuss the practical considerations examined by power supply designers to help them make the most ...

Description: By 2017, there were nearly 1,400 satellites in orbit, serving both military and commercial customers. Their missions span a wide range of functions including reconnaissance, surveillance, imaging, ...

Description: Discrete IGBTs are the preferred power switch for modern inverter-based induction cooking products due to their inherent efficiency. As energy costs continue to rise and consumer demand for ...

Description: The automotive industry is quickly moving toward more electrification. The deployment of start-stop systems, emergency call (eCall) telematics, and hybrid vehicles is fueling the need for advanced ...

Description: Enhanced current carrying capabilities with combined IGBTs and diodes in one module. ...

Description: Automakers around the world have begun releasing vehicles that include a new 48-volt (48V) power subsystem, also known as board net. The first announcements have come from European OEMs, like Audi, ...

Description: The power FET is an essential safety function in a battery management system (BMS). The main purpose of the power FET is to isolate the battery pack from either a load or a charger in errant ...

Description: Automotive battery management system technology has advanced considerably over the last decade. Today, several multi-cell balancing IC features play a key role in meeting the stringent safety, ...

Description: TRENCHSTOP™ Performance enables higher efficiency in motor control, air conditioning compressors, HVAC motor drives, UPS, solar power converters and all power conversion applications working up ...

Description: SiC based systems have the revolutionary capability which can be characterized by a steep change in performance which can make them attractive for designers targeting innovative and disruptive ...

Description: In a server there might be several places where power losses occur, but in many cases the power supplies for the CPUs and memories are the most stressed components due to the high power requirements. ...

Description: While the 12-volt lead acid battery is still the dominant power source in automobiles, there are new automotive applications that require higher voltages. To address these high voltage applications, a ...

Description: The USB-C™ port is a true all-in-one port capable of delivering bi-directional data and up to 100W of power. However, adopting USB-C charging requires a fundamental change to the existing power ...

Description: In most step-down power conversions where multiple output voltages are required to regulate off a single input source, the switching regulators can impose high input RMS current and noise to the POL ...

Description: Using ORing controllers and power FETs in place of ORing power diodes can minimize power loss in high-current power distribution systems. This article discusses key selection steps for choosing power ...

Description: Voltage and ferroelectric characteristics are important factors in determining the performance of piezoelectric MEMS. ROHM is focusing on developing a thinner lead zirconate titanate (PZT) material ...

Description: In recent years, the efficiency of a battery in terms of how much power it can output with respect to size and weight has dramatically improved. This ongoing transformation of battery technology has ...

Description: System designers are constantly challenged to create smaller, more efficient and cost effective solutions that will place wearables on the wrists of many more people. Battery life is an important ...

Description: Today's latest FPGAs, processors, ASICs and associated memories in various industrial equipment have raised the performance requirement significantly on the point-of-load (POL) power converter ...

Description: The broadband and smartphone revolutions have dramatically changed how we consume and interact with information in our professional and private lives. Storage and computing servers, colloquially known ...

Description: The increase of voltage input rails for delivering point-of-load power to DSPs, ASICs, FPGAs and microprocessors is creating more challenges for power supply designers. Especially as system power and ...

Description: In high voltage applications where a lower output voltage is required, designers have traditionally relied on modules that increase system cost, or two stage DC/DC solutions that increase solution ...

Description: Careful consideration must be given to the selection of a suitable battery management IC that is optimized for the rigors of automotive applications. Proprietary communication protocols and careful ...

Description: System designers everywhere are under enormous pressure. They're being tasked with integrating more power and features in ever-shrinking form factors, and thus adversely affecting the system's ...

Description: Efficient power management is an important design element enabling systems developers to overcome increasing demands for compact size, low-power operation and improved functionality. In addition, many ...

Description: This article from Intersil discusses a multi-layer PCB layout method that uses via placements to maximize the thermal performance of a dual phase power module. The module features two single phase ...

Description: Systems engineers have come up with creative solutions to increase battery life, and while most power requirements are already integrated into a smartphone and tablet's power management IC (PMIC), ...

Description: Integrated circuits (ICs) are a vital component in almost all fields of the modern world. As a result, power management in these ICs has become more and more critical. From consumer products such as ...

Description: New trends and changing requirements in the power management industry influence how we design power supplies. Some, like the need for telemetry and system information, are more recent due to ...

Description: Supercapacitors are adopted as energy storage solutions in a variety of power management applications. Because of their intrinsic physical characteristics that provide advantages over traditional ...

Description: DDR memory is becoming increasingly popular in satellite and space applications. However, no power solution can survive the harsh environments of space while meeting the power requirements of the VTT ...

Description: The market for battery powered motor driven products is growing rapidly with the introduction of brushless motors and Li-ion batteries, and because of their ability to extend operating time, even ...

Description: There are many choices of sensing elements to measure current to a load, and the choices of current sensing elements can be sorted by applications, as well as the magnitude of the current measured. No ...

Description: Digital power management and control provide real-time intelligence that enables system developers to build power systems that automatically adapt to their environment and optimize efficiency. The use ...

Description: Today's power systems for communications and computing infrastructure support high current loads from increasingly power hungry FPGAs, ASICs and microprocessors. To meet the challenge of designing the ...

Description: This technical article details how to implement wireless inductive charging in low-power, wearable designs using existing off-the-shelf devices. Among the key factors to consider when designing a ...

Description: Automobile electrical power systems are subjected to many tortuous conditions over the life of the vehicle. In addition to adverse conditions on the battery power bus, there are also operating ...

Description: The demand for portable low cost welding machines, especially in developing countries, is increasing. In the Manual Metal Arc and Tungsten Inergt Gas types, in power range from 1,5kW up to 5kW, ...

Description: Designers often require power sources with negative output voltages. There are many different ways to produce a negative output voltage from a positive input voltage. One option is a ...

Description: Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout for Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) is critical to achieve proper converter operation, good thermal performance, and excellent radiated EMI performance. ...

Description: This technical article describes how synchronous rectification is beneficial in low-duty-cycle applications as the load current increases. The lower losses with synchronous rectification can improve ...

Description: Increasingly, wide input voltage power management integrated circuits (ICs) that combine features previously available only at lower voltages are now available at competitive prices. High-voltage ...

Description: This application note describes the fundamental differences between a Superjunction MOSFET and a standard MOSFET. Additionally, all features and benefits impacting the target applications will be ...

Description: Power MOSFET technology has been developed towards higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...

Description: Power MOSFET technology has developed toward higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...

Description: This tech brief discusses fundamental strategies for evaluating and selecting power discrete semiconductors. ...

Description: This tech brief describes the fundamental challenges of power management design and provides options for design requirements. ...

Description: Texas Instruments (TI) offers synchronous buck converters with DCS-Control™ technology, a regulation topology of Direct Control with Seamless transition into power-save mode. This topology ...

Description: The Impedance Track™ battery-fuel-gauging technology from Texas Instruments (TI) is a proprietary algorithm that learns battery capacity and impedance over time to accurately calculate the ...

Description: This article compares three different solutions that provide a 5-V output at 100 mA from a 24-V bus. A synchronous step-down (buck) converter is compared to an integrated linear regulator and a ...

Description: TI's Automotive and Transportation Selection Guide contains featured new products, device selection guides, parametric tables, and a wide range of design factors for amplifiers, audio, comparators, ...

Description: DC/DC converters are complex electronic subassemblies that can easily have over 50 parameters specified on a datasheet. Accuracy testing is important not only at design stage but also at production ...

Description: The basic charger has a single power source in a buck converter configuration with current feedback. To charge both batteries, it switches between the batteries every second. When a battery is ...

Description: An Uninterruptible Power Supply, or UPS, is an electronic device that provides an alternative electric power supply to connected electronic equipment when the primary power source is not available. ...

Description: In jitter-sensitive applications, power supply noise sensitivities increase design complexity and reduce functional design margin. This in-depth Silicon Labs white paper examines the primary sources ...

Description: The usage of lighting-emitting diodes (LEDs) in auto?motive applications is increasing for many of the same reasons that LED lighting is penetrating non-automotive sectors. LEDs are more efficient and ...

Description: The reference design shows a power solution using LDOs. ...

Description: This reference design is for powering the Spartan 6 LX150 and features TI's Swift Intragrated FETS DC to DC converters. ...

Description: The Xilinx® Virtex-6 FPGA reference design is a Virtex 6 LX130 design using TPS40190 controller and TI NextFETs™ for best efficiency and performance. ...

Description: The is a 5-V and 12-V Input Modular Power Reference Design for the TMS320C6472. ...

Description: >The LED Reference Design Cookbook contains 17 reference designs and is designed to provide you with a valuable tool to help you solve your lighting design needs. Customers seeking the latest in ...

Description: Over the last four decades, optocouplers have been the "default" signal isolation device, but recent breakthroughs in silicon isolation technology have spawned smaller, faster, and more reliable and ...

Description: The central goal of this application note is to supply support material for a new MCP3901 design. Starting with PCB layout techniques, getting the best performance out of this device will be given for ...

Description: ROHM CMOS LDO (low drop-out) regulators are tailored for use in portable devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders. Lower in cost and small in packaging, ROHM CMOS LDOs offer ...