ON Semiconductor has optimised IGBTs for induction heating at 15-30kHz, including cooking.
NGTBxxN120IHRWG and NGTBxxN135IHRW are both 20A TO-247-3 devices, of 1,200 and 1,350V rating respectively.
Applications are expected in hot pots, rice cookers and microwave cookers.
At the same time it announced devices for…
Belgian lab Imec and Renesas are to develop low-power radio for automotive and industrial sensor networks.
“Various applications of sensor networks for a smart society need ultra-low power wireless communication technologies. So we develop RF architectures and circuit technologies for them,” said Renesas manager Koichi Yahagi. “We are…
International Rectifier has started to ship GaN power transistors, from its in-house 150mm GaN-on-Si epitaxial process.
The company has been developing the process for a decade, and claims it is “fully compatible” with its current silicon manufacturing facilities.
“GaN has the potential to be infused into every…
Harting’s latest rectangular connector offers highest contact density in the company’s Han 3A size range.
It incorporates 21 D-Sub contacts, including one designed as a leading contact.
The connector has been developed to address the challenges presented by harsh ambient conditions where ease of handling is needed…
Cambridge Nanotherm is to build its first prototype manufacturing plant in Haverhill, UK following the award of £250,000 in matched funding from the UK Innovation Agency – Technology Strategy Board (TSB).
Cambridge Nanotherm has developed and patented a nanoceramic-aluminum substrate for thermal management of electronics, which can be used…
STMicroelectronics will have a $3bn digital IC business next year based on superior IC process technology, says the company’s CTO and CMO, Jean-Marc Chery.
At ST’s investor day in London yesterday, various analysts questioned the value of ST investing in advanced process technology nodes when the company…
Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google, together with NASA, has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada. However, questions remain over just how D-Wave’s quantum computers work and whether they would beat…
Energy Micro is working with TSMC to verify the benefits of using the foundry’s Extreme Low Leakage (eLL) process to produce the next generation of its Cortex-M microcontrollers.
TSMC’s eLL process is a refinement of its embedded flash (EmbFlash) technology with even lower power consumption than its…
This year, the market size for high brightness (HB) LEDs is expected to reach $12bn and grow to $20.2bn by 2015. One application area driving this growth is the use of LEDs in backlight of TFT-LCDs, writes Tony Armstrong (pictured), director of product marketing for power products at…
International Rectifier has introduced a family of automotive-qualified mosfets for heavy load applications including electric power steering and braking systems.
The family of 22 AEC-Q101 qualified 40V n-channel transistors comes in D2Pak-7P, D2Pak, DPak, TO-262, IPAK and TO-220 packages.
The benchmark D2Pak-7P AUIRFS8409…
Vicor has raised power density in its isolated, zero voltage-switched (ZVS) dc-dc converters to 334W/in3, in its Picor-branded PI31xx series.
“The converters utilize an advanced ZVS architecture and planar magnetics to enable IC-like density,” claimed the firm. “The 900kHz switching frequency reduces input filter and…
A research programme for multi-core embedded processor design has received £5.6m in funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
The programme called “Power-efficient, Reliable, Many-core Embedded systems” or PRiME, involves researchers at four UK universities in collaboration with five companies – ARM…