Power

Intersil Corporation has expanded its family of radiation hardened single supply op amps with the introduction of the ISL70218SRH. This dual precision rail-to-rail output amplifier consumes half the power of competing devices, and provides superior noise performance, input offset and input bias current specifications. The ISL70218SRH is designed for satellite applications, nuclear reactor equipment, oilfield […]

International Rectifier has expanded its online design tool for the SupIRBuck® family of integrated point-of-load voltage regulators to include new devices utilizing hysteretic constant on-time (COT) control designed to offer improved light load efficiency. The user friendly, interactive, web-based tool available at http://mypower.irf.com/SupIRBuck now enables the rapid selection, electrical and thermal simulation and design optimization […]

Intersil Corporation has introduced the ISL55211, a low noise, wideband differential amplifier that requires only a single 3.3V power supply and consumes only 35mA quiescent current (155mW). The ISL55211 is an ultra-low distortion, high-speed differential amplifier that can drive high performance ADCs, such as the recently introduced 14-bit ISLA214P50, with minimal degradation to the ADC’s […]

Intersil Corporation introduced an automotive qualified ambient light sensor that can measure incident light levels down to 0.01 lux with near human eye spectral response. The ISL76671 is the industry’s first low light ambient light sensor (ALS) that operates within the automotive temperature range of -40 degrees C to 105 degrees C, guaranteeing reliable performance […]

Microchip announces the new SST11CP15 RF power amplifier for 5GHz IEE 802.11a/n WLAN embedded applications. The device operates on the 4.9 to 5.9GHz band and offers a wide operating voltage range of 3.3V to 5V. The SST11CP15 features a high linear output power of 18dBm at 2.5 percent EVM, using 802.11a OFDM 54Mbps at 3.3V, […]

Microchip announces the MCP1754/MCP1754S low dropout regulators (LDOs) which feature a high typical PSRR of 70dB at 1kHz, and a maximum output current of 150mA at a junction temperature of +125°C. Both LDOs offer a high input voltage of 16V; an output voltage range of 1.8V to 5.5V, with standard output voltages of 2V, 2.5V, […]

RFMD’s high-power GaN broadband power transistors (BPTs) are optimized for commercial infrastructure, military communications, and general purpose amplifier applications in the 700MHz to 2.2GHz frequency band. They are ideal for constant envelope, pulsed, WCDMA, and LTE applications. Using an advanced 48V high power density Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor process optimized for high peak-to-average ratio applications, […]

Based on digital-core controllers, the Ericsson 3E* second generation of voltage regulators, the 12A BMR462, the 20A BMR463 and the 40A BMR464, now support 93 PMBus commands, allowing designers to monitor and control energy distribution from system level to board level. The PMBus digital interface enables the end-user to configure many aspects of device operation […]

XP Power announced today two additions to its range of ultra compact high power density AC-DC power supplies. New products include the introduction of the encapsulated single output ECE series, and multiple output models of the existing ECL family. The ECE20 are encapsulated PCB mount 20 Watt devices, measuring just 27.7 x 52.4 x 23.0 […]

Power Integrations introduced two new members of its LinkZero-AX product family (LNK585 and LNK586), along with a PI University introductory video course that explains how designers can achieve 0.00 watts of standby energy consumption. Launched in October 2010, the LinkZero-AX integrated offline switching IC family now offers increased main power output up to 6.5 watts […]