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The third edition medical safety standard using DC/DC converters
Any electrical medical appliance, healthcare or dental product must comply with specific safety standards that are based on IEC60601-1. Now in its third edition, the standard includes the general requirements for the provision of basic safety and essential performance, explains Ann-Marie Bayliss, Murata.
The advantages of DSP in hi-rel, high output power converter design
Sophisticated digital power converters provide kW-level power with configurability and remote communications that analogue converters lack, says Kamran Kazem, VP and CTO at Magnetic Design Labs.
PFM controller boasts current mode control
The FAN7688 advanced pulse frequency modulated (PFM) controller from Fairchild Semiconductor is now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics. Integrating an advanced two-inductor, one capacitor (LLC) resonant controller with current-mode control and synchronous rectification (SR), the controller is one of the industry’s first isolated DC/DC controller chips that adds charge current control to LLC resonant power supply units (PSUs) ve...
Silent, faster: Solid state relays have no moving parts
Two new solid-state relay (SSR) series from Kudom are now in stock at RS Components. These new SSRs offer built-in touch-proof protection and high-quality performance to meet the demands of industrial OEMs, as well as builders of panels, machines and heating-control systems.
DAQ SoCs improve smart grid monitoring & protection
Analog Devices has introduced a 24-bit Data AcQuisition (DAQ) SoC series designed to improve the performance of protection, monitoring, and power quality measurement equipment used to manage transmission and distribution of energy within smart grids. All three devices in the AD777x series offer the industry’s best combination of dynamic range and data throughput and feature eight simultaneous sampling channels that measure the output from c...
XP Power acquires EMCO High Voltage Corporation
XP Power announced that it has acquired the business and assets of EMCO High Voltage Corporation (EMCO), adesigner and manufacturer of high voltage power modules, for a total cash consideration of $12.0m (£7.8m). EMCO, based in Northern California and with manufacturing operations in Nevada, supplies the industrial and medical sectors with a broad range of standard, modified and custom high voltage products.
Optimum SNR with low jitter clocks
A family of ultra-low jitter 1.8GHz clock distribution chips has been introduced by Linear Technology. The LTC6954 has three independent outputs, each with its own divider and phase delay. With less than 20fsRMS additive jitter over the 12kHz to 20MHz bandwidth, the LTC6954 minimises the amount of introduced noise while dividing and distributing its input clock.
Microcontroller takes aim at IoT applications
The Intel Quark microcontroller D1000, designed for Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and applications is in stock at distributor Mouser Electronics. Announced at Intel’s IoT Insights event in San Francisco, along with Intel Quark microcontroller D2000 and the Intel Quark SE microcontroller for IoT, this new technology extends intelligent computing to a new spectrum of data actuation applications and devices that require lower power co...
Split-rail overview
Learn how the TPS6513x family of split rail converters from Texas Instruments simplifies your designs and saves you space and money on industrial, automotive and personal electronics applications requiring a dual (+Vpositive/-Vnegative) supply.
Waveguide mixers boast conversion loss performance in compact packages
Pasternack adds new millimeter wave (mm-wave) waveguide frequency mixers available in six down-conversion and six up-conversion models that cover full Ka, Q, U, V, E, and W bands. Designs utilise high performance GaAs Schottky Barrier Beam Lead Diodes in balanced configurations that require a +13 dBm LO drive and display low levels of conversion loss.