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Microsemi and Analog Devices have announced a scalable SiC driver reference design solution at PCIM Europe 2017. The solution is based on a range of Microsemi SiC MOSFET products and ADI’s ADuM4135 5KV isolated gate driver. Both companies are exhibiting in PCIM's Hall 6; Analog Devices are on stand458, andMicrosemi on stand 318.

Resistors, capacitors and diodes to help design engineers optimise their end products and address key design challenges such as scale, performance and cost have been added to the Farnell element14 portfolio. They represent the Super 12 range which is released annually by Vishay and consists of six semiconductors and six passive components with advanced technology capabilities.

Analog Devices has announced small form factor isolated gate drivers designed for the higher switching speeds and system size constraints required by power switch technologies such as SiC and GaN, while still providing reliable control over switching characteristics for IGBT and MOSFET configurations.

There’s a special, satisfying glow of accomplishment which designers feel when signing off on a high performance, high current (>100A) power module such as used in PWM inverters. There are so many competing factors to be balanced and tradeoffs to be made, starting with the choice of switching frequency.

The AK Air condensation-free IP65 rated distribution boards from Spelsberg have become one of the world’s most demanding applications, decompression chambers for deep sea divers.The Bends, or decompression sickness, is one of the greatest fears for all divers. If they rise from great depths too quickly, the decompressing of their bodies as the water pressure reduces can cause gas bubbles to form in their bodies, blocking blood flow and caus...

The higher switching frequencies, operating temperatures, and voltage handling capabilities of Wide BandGap (WBG) materials such as Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) makes them of fundamental importance to any effort to reduce energy consumption.

The automotive industry has long been focussing on the higher efficiency of the combustion engine and electrification of the drivetrain in hybrid and fully electric vehicles to meet CO2emission goals. Now we finally see a tipping point with a greater availability ofSiC (Silicon Carbide) chips that offer extremely low power losses and higher temperature resistance.

Higher efficiency, increased power density, smaller footprints and reduced system costs: these are the main advantages of transistors based on SiC. Infineon Technologies is starting volume production for the Easy 1B, the first full-SiC module announced during PCIM 2016. At PCIM 2017, the company showcased additional module platforms and topologies for the 1200V CoolSiC MOSFET family. Infineon is now able to bring the potential of SiC technology t...

In each life a little rain must fall, but in space, one of the biggest risks to astronauts’ health is radiation 'rain'. NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is simulating space radiation on Earth following upgrades to the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. These upgrades help researchers on Earth learn more about the effects of ionising space radiation, to hel...

Opening up its HIPERFACE DSL (Digital-Servo-Link) interface SICK has announced it will be available to all its users.When launched six years ago, the interface made a single cable servomotor a reliable proposition for the very first time. Following the rapid adoption of the revolutionary One Cable Technology, SICK has decided that the interface it invented will now be available as an open protocol.