2019-10-28 - Giovanni Romeo

Use a current mirror to control a power supply

An easy method to control the output of a power supply is to use a current mirror.

2019-10-03 - Peter Millett

MOSFET drivers for motor drives: Start with your motor’s specs

Know the voltage, current, and thermal tradeoffs when designing in the right MOSFET and pre-drivers.

2019-09-20 - Larry Desjardin

Do lithium-ion batteries follow Moore’s Law?

Semiconductors took advantage of a single technology (CMOS) to achieve incremental gains, batteries need new chemistries.

2019-09-16 - Lee Bourns

Mitigating battery overtemperature threats in wearable electronics

To prevent thermal events from occurring within the wearable device's specifications, overcurrent and overtemperature protection has become a critical safety…

2019-09-06 - Steve Taranovich

Power supply management in quantum computers

How will we power these ‘beasts’ that need as much power as a small city?

2019-09-05 - Brian King

How to improve flyback efficiency with a nondissipative clamp

These variations of the flyback converter use nondissipative clamping techniques to recycle leakage energy and improve efficiency.

2019-09-04 - Carlos Castro

Electric vehicle charging: How technology and smart engineering will make our electric future possible

With the switch to HEVs and EVs accelerating, developing a network of DC fast charging stations is so important.

2019-09-03 - Steve Taranovich

Transphorm to develop N-polar GaN for RF/mmWave for DoD

Transphorm will be a production source and supplier of GaN epiwafers for DoD and commercial RF/mmWave and power electronics applications.

2019-08-29 - Bijesh Poyil & Martin Murnane

Fast prototyping and deployment of control algorithms for power conversion applications

Model driven development has been adopted by the industry as a solution for fast prototyping and to reduce time to…

2019-08-23 - Stephen Woodward

Diodes derive logarithms and exponentials to optically sense AC/DC current

Using only generic components, this Design Idea implements an optically-isolated current sense topology compatible with DC sources of either polarity,…