Electronic Design

Switch-Mode ICs Promote Efficient Power Management, Part 1: Switch-Mode Fundamentals

Switch-mode ICs play a dominant role in optimizing the efficiency and minimizing the size of power conversion subsystems used in consumer, computer, and industrial equipment. A switch-mode converter ...
EDN

Fairchild Introduces the First Intelligent Power Switch Integrating a Low-Current IC and a p-Channel MOSFET for Slew Rate Control Up to 3 A

Fairchild Semiconductor announced the FDC6901L, a one-of-a-kind power switch integrating an advanced Trench technology p-channel MOSFET with a slew-rate controller IC. The result is an intelligent ...
Hackaday

A Simple Soft Power Switch Using Common Modules

If you want to easily control the power in a circuit, you’ll probably reach for the classic toggle switch. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, physical toggles are a bit dated at this ...
Electronic Design

eGaN® FET – Silicon Power Shoot Out: A Retrospective

In mid-2010, GaN FET technology was made available to the general power conversion engineering community when Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) introduced the industry’s first commercially available ...
EDN

New power semiconductors cut data center energy

The vast arrays of computers around the world consume huge amounts of power. The Data centers that enable the internet exemplify this power usage. As much as 1.2% of the power consumed in the entire U ...