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Fan Control Systems Are More Than About Blowing Hot Air Away

Thermal management is becoming more challenging for design engineers. ICs like microprocessors and graphics engines are become smaller, more powerful, occupy smaller pc-board spaces, and dissipate greater heat levels that must be managed and controlled. ...

Pulse Withstanding Resistors Handle High Surges

Design engineers dealing with surge events need to understand the significant difference between pulse voltage withstanding and pulse power withstanding resistors....

Reducing Size, Complexity Of An Isolated Synchronous Gate Driver

The traditional approach to designing an isolated DC to DC converter with synchronous rectification involves using optocouplers or pulse transformers for isolation, and mating them together with a gate driver IC. However, a more integrated approach has higher performance and a much smaller solution size and cost than either the pulse transformer or optocoupler. ...

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Auto-Transformers Allow North American Appliances to be used Worldwide

Foster Transformer introduces a new line of Auto-Transformers or autoformers that use a single non-isolated winding to step up or step down the available line voltage to match the requirements of the load....

42V Input with 55V Transient Protection, 2MHz Dual Channel Step-Down Regulator

Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3641, a dual channel, current mode step-down switching regulator with a power-on reset and watchdog timer....

Thin-Film Capacitors in 0402 (EIA 01005) Package

TDK-EPC presents the new TDK TFSQ0402 series of thin-film capacitors in a 0402 (EIA 01005) package....

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Power Management 101: Power MOSFETs

What are Power MOSFETs ? Power MOSFETs (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors) are three-terminal silicon devices that function by applying a signal to the gate that controls current conduction between source and drain. Their current conduction capabilities are up to several tens of amperes, with breakdown voltage ratings (BVDSS) of 10V to 1000V. ...

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Bus Converter Maximizes System Efficiency, Minimizes Heat Losses

Small size, high efficiency, and heat management are valuable attributes for any element in a computer system, but the elements that comprise the system depend to some extent on the system architecture...

Industry News from PETech Times

CoolingZONE Summit to Provide Expert Insights into Electronics Thermal Management

The 2011 CoolingZONE Business and Technology Summit will run October 5-6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a world hub of high technology and business education. ...

The ESDA and JEDEC Revise Standards for ESD Testing

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association and the ESD Association today announced the publication of ANSI/ESDA/JEDEC JS-001-2011 for Electrostatic Discharge Sensitivity (ESD) Testing - Human Body Model (HBM) - Component Level. ...

'Bible' of Analog Design

Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier Science & Technology Books, has published an eagerly awaited "bible" of analog electronic engineering and design by two industry leaders. ...

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