For those living before the invention of the transistor, the modern world must appear almost magical. Computers are everywhere now and are much more reliable, but there are other less obvious changes ...

High-end cars require close to a hundred electronic control units (ECUs), each taking power from the car battery with the intermediation of an on-board buck converter. As an example, an engine control ...

We recently noticed a very cool-looking series of power supply modules on a few of the Chinese deal web sites. Depending on the model, they provide a digitally-controlled voltage with metering. You ...

Linear Technology announces the LTC3541, a 500mA high efficiency, 2.25 MHz, synchronous buck regulator and a 300mA VLDO in a single package. The LTC3541 provides two high efficiency voltage rails from ...

This “Product How-To” article focuses how to use a certain product in an embedded system and is written by a company representative. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have emerged in recent years as ...

Tapping the benefits of an eight-bit micro-controller with on-board analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and memory, power supply maker Datel Inc. (Mansfield, Mass.) has readied a nonisolated dc-dc ...

Silicon Laboratories has introduced its most energy efficient microcontroller for low power applications in smart metering (water, gas and heat meters), in-home utility monitoring, wireless security, ...