Wearables benefit from flexible TEG materials
Energy harvesting via a TEG driven by body heat is a good idea, but practical issues are hindering its use.…
Submerge your power supply, and other options
Advances in marine industry power supplies, immersion computing, and immersion cooling aim to make fully immersible power possible.
How to reconfigure a buck converter for multiple outputs
This article will highlight various isolated/non-isolated DC/DC converter topologies and demonstrate how they can be implemented using a single synchronous…
Is Tesla’s battery-capacity deal the new standard?
“Pay for more power” may be a reasonable way to establish realized battery capacity, but it can also have some…
Bang-bang photovoltaic regulator needs no magnetics
You don’t always need a sophisticated MPPT controller to extract and regulate photovoltaic power. This elegant little circuit may do…
Find the right PMIC for your wearable systems
As smart watches become must-have devices, manufacturers are demanding smaller-size, lower-power circuitry with higher functionality.
Helix Entry Outperforms ‘Zero Power’ Target in Standby
The 90 to 97 percent efficient Helix Semiconductors eMpower HS200 DC/DC converter steps down 48 V to extremely low voltages…
How many MIT grads does it take to hook up a light bulb?
Engineers weigh in on the importance of teaching the principles of engineering as well as the practice.