Power and Power Management IC Reference Materials

Description: From a technical perspective, achieving higher-performance EV charging necessitates a design focus on the under- lying power conversion systems, including AC/DC, DC/DC, and even DC/AC conversion (in ...

Description: As electric vehicles grew in popularity, drivers began noticing something was missing: a connection to the vehicle they were driving. The quiet, calm experience behind the wheel was at times ...

Description: More and more engineers are optimizing the circuitry to recharge batteries in uninterruptable power supplies and back-up systems. Even conventional chargers have come to rely on semiconductors. ...

Description: There are fundamental truths that every system designer must face when it comes to power electronics. First, most projects will need multiple rounds of design, simulation, and trial to pass strict ...

Description: In the ever-evolving landscape of technological advancements, one concept stands out for its potential to revolutionize various industries: Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) technology. While its name ...

Description: Improve datacenter profitability and efficiency with liquid cooling and GaN ...

Description: In the rapidly evolving world of electric vehicles (EVs), GHSP, a leading provider of mechanical and electromechanical systems, has been on the forefront of innovation. Their latest project, the ...

Description: As the demand for solar energy grows, so does the demand for solar inverters, which play a crucial role in converting the direct current (DC) generated by solar panels into alternating current (AC) ...

Description: PICKERING INTERFACES has been a name in high performance switching for decades. They provide quality switching modules for a diverse range of applications, including military/defense, aerospace, ...

Description: "Qorvo® has introduced a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) that expands the company's portfolio of products for rapid in-vehicle charging of phones, tablets and laptops." ...

Description: Closed-loop current sensing technology is employed in many industrial and automotive applications for accurate current sensing. By employing proprietary packaging techniques and advanced integrated ...

Description: Gallium nitride (GaN) is quickly becoming the semiconductor material of choice for both RF/microwave and higher-wavelength devices. It has long been a semiconductor foundation for light-emitting ...

Description: Qorvo, a provider of innovative radio frequency solutions, has unveiled two products that advance the state of power management in enterprise and cloud computing systems. ...

Description: The increasing need for higher power density and improved cooling on military and aerospace platforms is pushing silicon-based power electronics systems to their operational limits. Wide-bandgap (WBG) ...

Description: Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has introduced a gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier (PA) ...

Description: GaN technology is the leading technology for the realization of microwave Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs). ...

Description: Demand is increasing for power amplifier chips and other RF devices for 5G base stations, setting the stage for a showdown among different companies and technologies. ...

Description: With the advancement of technology, the types of wearable personal electronic products and the integrated functions have become increasingly rich, such as smart watches, smart bracelets, AR glasses, ...

Description: Design and sales support for a high gain MMIC amplifier from Qorvo has been announced by distributor RFMW. ...

Description: Continuing advances in wireless connectivity such as 5G are increasing consumer expectations, putting more pressure on Wi-Fi manufacturers to up their game by developing new products that support the ...

Description: Qorvo’s new enhanced mmWave Spatium® amplifiers deliver unparalleled combining efficiency and bandwidth in a compact envelope for high performance applications such as satellite ground ...

Description: When it comes to selecting a MOSFET, the headline figure most engineers look for is the RDS(on) value. That's because we are so used to thinking the lower the RDS(on) the better. But while it remains ...

Description: Large magnetic fields are usually a killer for superconductivity, but researchers in the US have now fabricated a material that simultaneously superconducts and exhibits the quantum Hall effect - a ...

Description: Version 21.4.5 of the Modelithics Qorvo GaN Library includes a total of 82 models containing 59 packaged power models, 17 GaN die power transistor products and six small-signal models. This release ...

Description: Qorvo has launched its first Constant-On-Time (COT) PMIC to feature 13 voltage rails and 25 amps of power across all outputs in a 3.8 x 3.8 mm package. The product's flexibility, small form factor and ...

Description: Qorvo, a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world announced the interoperability of its DW3000 family of products with the Apple U1 chip used in iPhone and Apple Watch models ...

Description: QORVO QPA0007 and QPA0004 electronically reconfigurable dual-band (S- and X-band) GaN power amplifiers (PAs) support a shift in radar architecture for defense, weather and commercial avionics. The ...

Description: Merely days after the news of onsemi completing the acquisition of GT Advanced Technologies, another supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors is up for grabs. Qorvo has snapped United ...

Description: Superior power management and high efficiency have become essential as electronics have become increasingly smaller and more streamlined. The reduction of power dissipation and consequent heat and ...

Description: Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has acquired silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor ...

Description: For demanding systems, the choice of hotswap switch has been limited to the traditional D2PAK or through-hole package options. With Nexperia's new Application Specific MOSFETs (ASFETs) for Hotswap and ...

Description: Qorvo has acquired Princeton, N.J.-based United Silicon Carbide (UnitedSiC), a manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. The acquisition of United Silicon Carbide expands Qorvo's ...

Description: Electric-Vehicles, 48V telecom/data centers, 240W USB power delivery, and so on... these electronics applications utilize higher voltage power supplies than the 3.3V, 5V and 12V rails that we are more ...

Description: Thanks to their savings in size, weight, and cost, as well as higher efficiency, GaN and SiC power devices are making big pushes beyond fast chargers and renewable energy into data centers, motor ...

Description: Qorvo's QPA1724 is a packaged high power MMIC amplifier, Ku-/K-Band, fabricated on Qorvo's production 0.15 um GaN on SiC process (QGaN15).  QPA1724 is targeted for 17.3 to 21.2 GHz satcom band. It ...

Description: UnitedSiC (now Qorvo) has worked on a cascoded SiC FET architecture that shows several advantages in some key device parametrics. Silicon carbide power devices provide several advantages over their ...

Description: We shipped more than 1.7 billion LFPAK devices in 2021, including MOSFETs and bipolar power transistors in LFPAK56 and its later derivatives from small size of 3 mm x 3 mm LFPAK33 to 8 mm x 8 mm ...

Description: lobal megatrends, such as digitalization, and decarbonization, call for wide bandgap (WBG) devices (SiC/GaN). Due to their unique technological characteristics, they enable the highest performance and ...

Description: With the rising number of mobile devices, notebooks and battery-powered equipment, the need for increased charging power and fast charging has emerged. ...

Description: CoolSiC™ products from Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) are adopted by Delta Electronics, a Taiwan-based global leading provider of power and energy management solutions, to ...

Description: Both homeowners and professional consumers have been migrating from AC-powered (corded) tools to DC battery-powered (cordless) tools, and manufacturers are continuing to migrate from DC to brushless ...

Description: As solar installations grow larger and more ambitious by the day, new trends in current sensing are emerging for this expanding energy market. ...

Description: Allegro MicroSystems is a world leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing high-performance integrated circuits (ICs), which incorporate high performance magnetic transducers. This whitepaper ...

Description: Sensemore has released their most innovative product – Wireless Vibration Sensor for Quality Control, R&D & Maintenance. It monitors the health of your equipment without interruptions ...

Description: Since the mid-nineteen seventies the “enhancement-mode” MOSFET has been the subject of almost continuous global research, development, and refinement by both the semiconductor industry and ...

Description: For maximum 50/60 cycle line power noise rejection, Integration time tINT must be picked as a multiple of the period of line power frequency. For example, tINT times of 16.667 msec, 33.333 msec, ...

Description: While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory and established legitimacy over the last few years, the electronic circuitry used in energy harvesting systems continues to ...

Description: While the practice of energy harvesting has emerged from the laboratory to the marketplace over the last few years, many popular energy sources capable of generating waste energy have yet to emerge as ...

Description: The paradigm that EPAD MOSFET arrays introduce is that gate thresholds can now be precisely controlled so that analog designers are now able to take advantage of the absolute value of the gate ...

Description: Voltage clamps for protecting low-voltage DC circuits require a new approach to circuit design. Many clamps commonly used were built for systems of 5-Volts or higher but lower voltage systems require ...

Description: Current leakages are ever present in electronic systems, and many forms of leakage are considered by engineers to be unusable. This thinking is starting to change as new frontiers in ultra-low power ...

Description: Novel Circuit Design Offers Insight on Over-Voltage Problem that Jeopardizes Cell Life and Provides Solution on How to Implement Automatic Leakage Current Equalization ...

Description: These devices are positioned to balance the voltage for supercapacitors used in a series to prevent each cell from overvoltage while offering a significant cost saving when compared to traditional ...

Description: It can be tough to harvest energy from innovative IoT devices such as thermoelectric generators built into clothing. A new kind of MOSFET is designed to work with the super-low voltages involved. ...

Description: Energy Harvesting taps ambient waste energy through increasingly efficient micro-energy power generators using piezoelectric elements. As circuits such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that operates ...

Description: Recently revealed independent testing data shows that SAB MOSFET arrays designed into supercapacitor applications of two or more cells can reduce leakage current. By reducing leakage current, the ...

Description: A MOSFET can have low current and low voltage and still effective balance a wide range of supercapacitors with values beyond 1000F because the supercapacitor current does not flow through the MOSFET. ...

Description: By reducing leakage current, SAB MOSFET device balance individual cell voltage with current balancing and cut power dissipation compared to op amp-based voltage balancing ...

Description: The use of supercapacitor series stacks are growing for many systems used in backup power storage or battery life extension. One of the most critical circuit design goals for such systems is ...

Description: Systems and circuits that are susceptible to damage in over-voltage conditions benefit from voltage clamps to ensure that voltages remain below a critical limit. But because this is a protection ...

Description: For decades, analog voltage comparators have found a wide range of applications in mixed signal sensor circuits, those used to compare physical measurements that could be translated into corresponding ...

Description: Energy Harvesting (EH) is the process of electronically capturing and accumulating energy from a variety of energy sources deemed wasted or otherwise said to be unusable for any practical purpose. ...

Description: This introduction to EPAD MOSFET describes a broad selection of devices with precisely set gate threshold voltage values, including zero threshold mode, enhancement mode and depletion mode. ...

Description: Supercapacitors are a great alternative to batteries in applications needing many rapid charge/discharge cycles and are popular in applications such as short-term energy storage, regenerative ...

Description: ALD's Electrically Programmable Analog Device (EPAD) technology provides a family of matched transistors with a range of precision threshold values. All members of this family are designed and ...

Description: As circuit supply voltages decrease and green energy trends grow in popularity, designers should re-examine some of the circuits that continually consume power in an effort to reduce overall system ...

Description: The average supercapacitor has a maximum charging voltage of between 2.5 and 2.7 V. For many applications a voltage this low isn't particularly useful, so the common practice is to place multiple ...

Description: Crystal Oscillators are key components used in many electronic circuits, such as in radio frequency applications and digital and microprocessor-based devices. In order to save power, an ultra ...

Description: ALD110900, ALD110804 and ALD114904 devices were utilized as inverters and buffers to create a low power oscillator circuit with various configurations. This article covers three basic oscillator ...

Description: Voltage clamps for protecting low-voltage dc circuits require a new approach to circuit design. Many commonly used voltage clamps were built for systems of 5 V or higher, but lower-voltage systems ...

Description: IoT asset trackers have become an indispensable part for many industries. However, tracking assets can become costly if a tracker runs out of battery and stops relaying data. Another challenge is ...

Description: With its new PMIC, e-peas hopes to enable more performant energy harvesting for IoT devices. But to do so, what are the challenges that come with IoT energy harvesting? ...

Description: One particular area that is characterised by high energy demands and a need for high efficiency power supplies are data centres. To minimise the cost and the ecological footprint of the higher and ...

Description: e-peas engineers worked in conjunction with the team at Dutch systems integrator SODAQ on the development and implementation of energy efficient livestock monitoring hardware for Brisbane-based client ...

Description: Step-down (buck) regulators are used industrywide to convert power from a distributed bus to the individual point-of-loads (POLs) in industrial and infrastructure systems. These buck converters need ...

Description: A true bidirectional buck-boost approach for DC power backup applications provides utmost efficiency and improves overall system reliability. This approach is also ideal for optimizing battery health ...

Description: End-to-end solutions with key components from Infineon - MOSFETs, driver ICs, voltage regulators and microcontroller units with software ...

Description: new family of robust SiC semiconductor devices for the Electric Vehicle (EV) and renewable energy markets that delivers the highest available power density and durability for on-board automotive power ...

Description: n solar power generation, the photovoltaic (PV) cells utilize the sun's energy to generate DC voltage in the range of 400 to 600 V DC. This DC needs to be boosted to approximately 850 V DC so that an ...

Description: Scalable Point-of-Load (POL) offers design flexibility for a wide range of load-current requirements. Combined with benefits derived from digital power management, the scalable digital POL simplifies ...

Description: One of the most popular switching regulator topologies is the buck or step-down converter. Buck regulator ICs make it easy to implement buck converters for realizing step-down power conversion. They ...

Description: The combination of a switched capacitor circuit to halve the input voltage followed by a synchronous step-down converter (hybrid converter) provides up to a 50% reduction in DC/DC converter solution ...

Description: There is a growing need for high-efficiency power conversion (DC/DC) in a variety of industrial applications, including solar power generation. In solar power generation, the photovoltaic (PV) cells ...

Description: Application engineers, powers supply designers and academics who work with high-efficiency and high-density powers supplies have to focus on many different aspects of the power supply design. The ...

Description: Silicon FETs have long since dominated the space and high-reliability industry, but they are quickly approaching their theoretical limit of performance. To move forward, we need to look towards wide ...

Description: ASICs, FPGAs, DSPs and microcontrollers demand very specific power-up and power-down sequencing for reliable operation and better efficiency. Adding the complexity of a spaceflight environment leaves ...

Description: The benefits of SiC are no longer a secret. Various industries include SiC technologies in the development process. SiC power is making its way into so many applications and device manufacturers need ...

Description: Semiconductor losses and their potential for further improvement: This paper compares latest generation Superjunction power transistors versus e-mode GaN HEMTs and SiC MOSFETs ...

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, ...