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| The UCC5870-Q1 device is a functional safety compliant, isolated, highly configureable singlechannel gate driver targeted to drive high power SiC MOSFETs and IGBTs in EV/HEV applications. Power transistor protections such as shunt resistor based over-current, NTC based over-temperature, and DESAT detection, including selectable soft turn off or two-level turn off during these faults. |
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| Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) has raised $9.5m in Series A funding. The investment was co-led by IQ Capital, Parkwalk Advisors and BGF, and includes investment from Foresight Williams, Cambridge Enterprise, Martlet Capital, Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group. The funding will be used by CGD to expand its product portfolio of energy efficient power devices and to double the size of its team. |
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| STMicroelectronics has revealed a USB Type-C Power Delivery 3.0 reference design with Programmable Power Supply (PPS) support to accelerate the design of easy-to-use, compact, and efficient power adapters up to 27W with zero-power operation when no cable is connected. |
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| Silanna Semiconductor has announced the full production release of the expanded portfolio of Active Clamp Flyback Controllers (ACF). Silanna Semiconductor focuses on the ultimate power management challenges with the power density and efficiency with BoM savings. First announced in April 2020, Silanna Semiconductor has achieved full production release of the SZ1110, a 33W Integrated Active Clamp Flyback Controller. |
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| XP Power has announced the introduction of the LCS series of regulated output, convection cooled AC-DC power supplies that are well-suited to budget-conscious applications. The four new series (LCS35, LCS50, LCS75 and LCS100) offer power levels of 35, 50, 75 and 100W, respectively and feature class B conducted and radiated emissions for easy & low cost system integration along with an integrated connector cover to enhance safety once installed. |
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| TDK Corporation has presented a new, user-friendly tool to help users select the right PTC inrush current limiters (ICL) for a range of different power supply and converter topologies. The intuitive tool is available online and does not need to be downloaded. |
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| ON Semiconductor has announced a new range of silicon carbide MOSFET devices for demanding applications where power density, efficiency and reliability are key considerations. By replacing existing silicon switching technologies with the new SiC devices, designers will achieve significantly better performance in applications such as electric vehicles (EV) on-board chargers (OBC), solar inverters, server power supply units (PSU), telecoms and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). |
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| Further progressing its goal of making battery-less technology more commonplace, e-peas has gained another win for its energy harvesting power management ICs (PMICs). These PMICs will now play a part in facilitating the development of devices using printed organic photocells produced by innovative Swedish manufacturer Epishine. |
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| TDK Corporation has developed new MLJ-H1005 inductors for use in NFC (near field communication). Mass production will begin in February 2021. The inductors' intended use is for the LC filters of NFC circuits. It is necessary for inductors to have narrow tolerances to minimise the loss caused by mismatched impedance with the antenna. |
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| Power management is integral to business strategy at Texas Instruments (TI), and as such the company is pushing significant investment towards gallium nitride technology, commonly known as GaN. This technology has huge potential to make a difference to how industrial and other applications are going to function in the future. |
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