Power Electronics

Imagine a country with no load shedding, power cuts or blackouts. A new era of reliable and efficient electricity supply is what the smart grid concept promises. Integrating modern digital electronics technology...

As the most popular portable energy source for embedded systems, batteries are paving their way through mainstream applications as the primary power source of choice. An increasing number of designs are...

Highly integrated SWIFT power modules eliminate input and output capacitors to provide best transient performance for space-constrained applications DALLAS (Feb. 13, 2017) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced a pair...

Mining is the process of extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth. Power electronics can play a great role in the modernisation of the mining industry. Everyone uses...

Nikola Tesla in the late-18th and early-19th centuries described a device that he believed could transmit electrical power from one conductor to another without the need for wires. But his work...

Inverters convert DC electricity from sources like solar panels, batteries and fuel cells into AC electricity. Their power-handling capacities like input voltage, output voltage and frequency depend on their design. Inverters require...

HONG KONG — Artesyn Embedded Technologies today announced a new 800-watt server power supply following the Intel Common Redundant Power Supply (CRPS) specification, which is designed for compute, networking and...

HONG KONG — Artesyn Embedded Technologies today announced that its CNS653-ME and LCM1500-Q AC-DC power supplies have received 80 PLUS certifications for 115 volt industrial units from Ecova, the total...

Batteries are the dominant technology for powering portable devices. But the problem with batteries is their size and requirement of frequent charging, time required for charging, and repair and replacement. Fig. 1...

October 30, 2017 - STMicroelectronics’ STM32 Power Shield enables developers to check the power consumption of their embedded designs accurately, using the same hardware chosen by EEMBC as the new reference...