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This Week in Power Bites: Grid-Scale Storage Boom, V2 G Initiative, and APEC Standouts
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (207+ words) Advances in high-thermal performance packaging are playing an almost equally important role in the push toward ever-higher speeds and power densities as the Ga N, Si C, and Si devices they're housing. Meanwhile, high-precision power management isn't just for AI…...
DC and AC Clamp-On Performs Isolated Measurements to 500 A
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (340+ words) "The target audience for this content includes engineers and technicians involved in high-precision current measurement applications such as EV battery testing, power measurement, and inverter efficiency analysis, who require reliable, galvanically isolated measurements up to 500 A across various industrial and…...
Thermal-Management Strategies for PCBs
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (642+ words) The race to make electronics smaller and more powerful has become a bit of a challenge when dealing with heat management in printed-circuit-board (PCB) design. Poor thermal design could shorten component life, degrade performance, and even cause catastrophic failures. Cooling…...
When AI Meets HBM: Memory Test for the Terabit Era
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (918+ words) As AI's appetite for data grows, and more complex memory architectures follow, the automated test equipment (ATE) sector will not simply react to these changes, but will shape them. AI has fundamentally altered system design by shifting the focus from…...
Flyback ICs Extend Operating Power to 440 W
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (255+ words) Power Integrations is extending the power range of flyback converters to 440 W. An advance in flyback topology developed by'Power Integrations extends the power range of flyback converters to 440 W, leading to reduced system cost, complexity, and design time. This reaches beyond…...
Use Snubber Circuits to Dampen Noise in DC-DC Converters
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1524+ words) Power designers are constantly pursuing DC-DC converter designs with higher efficiency and smaller sizes. These gains are often achieved by using faster switching frequencies to shrink inductors and capacitors in the solution. However, that also increases the impact of parasitics,…...
Power Design Made Simple: RECOM Power's Discrete Solutions
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (276+ words) "The target audience is engineers and product developers interested in next-generation power supply solutions, including modular and discrete designs, to optimize cost, size, efficiency, and time to market." Power Design Made Simple: RECOM Power's Discrete Solutions This episode of Inside…...
Applying Edge AI to DC Arc Fault Detection (Part 1)
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (480+ words) Because traditional protection isn't great at catching arc faults, edge artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to make sense, with local processing, fast response, and pattern recognition that are missed by older methods. The first installment of this three-part article series…...
Engineering on Friday 'toon: We Heart Field Engineers
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (370+ words) I hand-drew this cartoon - no AI involved. WE HEART FIELD ENGINEERS! !! What would we do without them? They're truly unsung heroes." Read my big article celebrating the field engineer here, and you can see the original coloring I did for…...
Protected Power Stages Clamp Peak AI Currents
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (468+ words) Modern GPUs can consume huge amounts of power to keep up with AI's voracity for compute cycles. But the way that these processors draw power is often anything but steady. Due to the highly dynamic nature of AI training and…...