CT-Concept Technologie has launched a new dual-channel IGBT-driver core which can handle voltages of up to 4.5 kV. Featuring transformer-based signal isolation - rather than more expensive fibre-optic technology - and an on-board power supply, the new 2SC0635T units are cost-effective, compact and reliable.

Power Integrations today introduced HiperPFS-2, a new family of high-efficiency, active-PFC ICs for offline applications from 100 W to 380 W. HiperPFS-2 ICs combine a boost PFC controller, driver, PFC MOSFET, PFC diode and protection circuits in one package, enabling exceptionally compact designs ideal for small-form-factor power supplies as used in mini-tower PCs, all-in-one PCs, game console adapters and TVs.

Power Integrations introduce the LQA200 series of 200 V diodes. The company’s Qspeed high-performance silicon diodes are based on merged-PIN technology that offers ‘soft’ switching and low reverse recovery charge. This unique balance of features enables high-frequency operation and permits the use of small, inexpensive magnetic components while maximizing operational efficiency.

Power Integrations launch the latest version of the PI Databook as a mobile app. The PI Databook App is a comprehensive mobile implementation of the complete portfolio of Power Integrations technical documents and enables engineers to access technical data and video from any iOS or Android platform-enabled tablet or smart-phone.

Power Integrations today announced that the latest version of its popular power supply design software, PI Expert Suite 9.0, now includes support for its LinkSwitch-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ICs and its recently introduced TinySwitch-4 off-line switcher IC family. Version 9.0 includes an enhanced schematics-manipulation tool. It also enables designers to upload the resulting BOM from the auto-generated schematic layout to selected, leading ...

Power Integrations today announced RDR-347, an LED-downlight reference design. The new circuit demonstrates the capabilities of the recently launched LYTSwitch IC family, which offers the industry’s best high-end dimming performance from a single-stage LED driver– together with all the associated efficiency, space and cost benefits that the single-stage approach brings.

CT-Concept Technologie AG has opened a design center in Ense, Germany. The facility will develop semi-custom gate-drive designs based on its driver cores and produce full-custom drivers using CONCEPT’s SCALE-2 platform for large projects.

PI has just released 24 W LED T10 lamp design (DER-356) with 92% efficiency. This design dramatically simplifies the production of off-line, power factor corrected, LED power supplies.

Power Integrations today announced a new long-lifetime LED-driver reference design. DER-340 describes a wide-range (90 VAC to 308 VAC), high-power-factor LED-driver power supply that is suitable for high-bay, exterior and street-lighting applications.

Power Integrations today announced two new reference designs describing high-efficiency, non-isolated, high-power-factor (PF) LED drivers for T8 tubes. The designs feature low component count and leverage simple magnetics and single-sided boards yielding industry-leading power densities of 14.2 W/in³. Based on the LNK460KG LED driver from Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch-PL family of ICs, the circuits detailed in DER-337 (high-line) and DER-345 ...

Power Integrations today introduced its latest family of LED-driver ICs, aimed at consumer, commercial and industrial lighting applications. The new LYTSwitch IC family delivers tight regulation and high efficiency for tube replacements and high-bay lighting, while providing exceptional performance in TRIAC-dimmable bulb applications.

Power Integrations has unveiled the TinySwitch-4 family, the newest generation of its industry-leading TinySwitch series of off-line switcher ICs. Featuring line-compensated overload power protection, TinySwitch-4 devices dramatically reduce the maximum overload power that can be delivered into the load over the entire AC input voltage range.

Power Integrations today announced DER-323, a reference design for an 18W, 88%-efficient, non-isolated A19 LED driver based on LNK460VG, a low-profile IC from the company’s LinkSwitch-PL family. The design is suitable for a 100 W incandescent bulb replacement and is optimized for low-line (90 VAC to 135 VAC) operation. The circuit is low-cost, requiring only a simple single-sided board and 25 components. No potting is necessary and the transfor...

Power Integrations today announced two new additions to its LinkSwitch-PH IC family. The new devices allow commercial lighting applications up to 75 W to benefit from single-stage design, dramatically reducing BOM cost and enabling a smaller driver with very high efficiency.

Power Integrations a annoncé aujourd'hui LinkSwitch-HP, une nouvelle famille de circuits intégrés d'alimentation à découpage secteur qui peut fournir une puissance de sortie jusqu'à 90 W avec une régulation précise côté primaire (PSR).

Power Integrations have unveiled LinkSwitch-HP, a new family of energy-efficient, off-line switcher ICs that can deliver up to 90 W output power with accurate primary-side regulation. LinkSwitch-HP ICs utilize innovative control algorithms and the properties of the main power transformer and output diode – instead of optocouplers and related feedback circuitry – to determine the amount of power to deliver from the primary to the isolated seco...

Power Integrations today announced a reference design kit for a 150 W, 48 V power supply for LED streetlights and other industrial/infrastructure lighting systems. The driver circuit described in RDR-292 is more than 93% efficient at 230 VAC input and above 91% at 110 VAC. The design delivers a system power factor of greater than 0.97, THD of less than 10%, and easily meets EN61000-3-2 C. Designs can be scaled from 75 W to 400 W, using the same p...

Power Integrations today announced an LED-driver reference design for high-power LED bulb replacement. The driver can deliver the power required for a 100 W incandescent bulb replacement in an A19 form factor - an industry first. DER-322 describes a non-isolated, 93% efficient, high-power-factor (PF) LED driver designed to drive a nominal LED string voltage of 78 V at 230 mA from an input voltage range of 195 VAC to 265 VAC (47 Hz — 63 Hz). The...

PI recently released a design for a non-isolated, high-efficiency, high power factor, 4.5 W TRIAC dimmable LED driver designed to drive a nominal LED string voltage of 48 V at 93 mA (4.5 W) from an input voltage range of 90 VAC to 132 VAC (47 Hz - 63 Hz).

Power Integrations annonce le design de référence DER-286 décrivant une alimentation à ballast de 30 W pour LED de remplacement de tubes fluorescents ; capable des meilleures rendements de l’industrie en atteignant jusqu’à 90% avec une large plage de tension d’entrée, ce pilote de LED respecte les directives internationales réglementant le facteur de puissance (PF) et la distorsion harmonique totale (THD).