Design Center

Ensuring the thermal integrity of your IC package/PC board design
Some basic tests will verify your PCB/IC thermal modeling and reality

• Getting basic utility meter designs ready for the Smart Grid

• Designing high-temp electronics for auto and other apps

• Getting disciplined about embedded software development: Part 2 - The Seven Step Plan

• Controlling brushless dc motors in diverse applications

• Power Tip 21: Watch That Capacitor RMS Ripple Current Rating!

Learning Center

Most Recent Courses

• Power Measurements for Switch-Mode Power Supplies
  Educast  20 min.
• Competitive Programmable Logic Power Measurements
  Video Tutorial  4 min.
• Electromagnetic Compatibility Design for Power Supplies
  Technology course  60 min.
• What Every Designer Should Know About MOSFETs (up to 200V)
  Technology course  60 min.
• Practical Control Design for Power Supplies
  Technology course  60 min.
• Choosing the Right Switches for SMPS, UPS, Welding, and Motor Drives
  Technology course  60 min.
• MOSFET Basics
  Technology course  55 min.

Product Center

Charger IC handles, balances serial supercapacitor pair
LTC4425 from Linear Technology Corp. charges from Li-ion battery, USB port, or DC rail; targets peak power, backup, and "dying gasp" applications.

Latest Product Articles

• Microsemi expands backlight controller line
• Thin-film resistor offered as high-power, low-cost alternative to thick film
• Agilent pads oscilloscope line
• 6-channel system managers with nonvolatile fault memory facilitate diagnostics
• Resistors perform current-sensing in high temp environments
• Mentor unveils thermal characterization, design tool
• Power management chip debuts with on-chip PMBus support
• IEEE 802.3af/at-compliant PD interface controllers enable PoE+ powered devices

Under the Hood

• Under the Hood: Gap narrows between plasma, LCD
• Under the Hood: Inside the Apple iPhone
• Inside the Toyota Prius: Part 5 - Inverter/converter is Prius' power broker
• Inside the Prius: Part 4 - Controllers keep dual motors humming
• DRAM makes move to copper
• Inside Intel's 65-nm NOR flash

Technical Paper Library

Latest Technical Papers

• SoC Integrated Power Supply Reduces System Cost of ECU
• Power Tip 12: Maximize Power Supply Efficiency
• Powering High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters with Switching Power Supplies
• Minimizing Power Consumption in RTL Designs Using Sequential Clock Gating and Low-Power Synthesis
• PFC output voltage considerations for asymmetrical half-bridge DC-DC converter
• Power Tip #11: Resolve Power Supply Circuit Losses
• How to implement negative SMPS for AC switch control

Featured Technical Papers

• Building Variable Output Voltage Boost PFC Converters with the FAN9612 Interleaved BCM PFC Controller
  Fairchild Semiconductor
• Sequencing with the MAX16046 System-Management IC
  Maxim Integrated Products
• An Alternative Approach to Higher-Power Boost Converters
  National Semiconductor
• Create an Inverting Power Supply From a Step-Down Regulator
  Texas Instruments
• µModule Buck-Boost Regulators Offer a Simple Solution for Wide Input/Output Voltage Range Applications
  Linear Technology

Webinars

Upcoming Webinars

• Mar 23, 2010: 
  Testing Energy Efficient Designs Webinar Series, Part II
  Tektronix, Inc.
• Apr 21, 2010: 
  High-Power Amplifier Characterization using a Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer
  Agilent Technologies

Latest Webinars

• Advantages of Iron Phosphate Battery Systems for Portable Applications
  Micro Power Electronics
• New Power Device Analyzer/Curve Tracer Solves High Power Device Testing Challenges
  Agilent Technologies