Automotive & Transportation

January 2014

Optimizing power quality under large load transients

Peyman Safa, Agilent Technologies

Today’s integrated circuits are operating faster than ever, and the increased operating speed can lead to highly dynamic power demand from the power supply, posing a challenge during testing using programmable power supplies. The high-speed current waveforms can lead to voltage drops at the integrated circuit. If

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Date:

01/13/2014

Using the right power semiconductors can increase your power density

Jifeng Qin, International Rectifier

The steady increase in vehicle production, along with increased demand for car electrification is a worldwide phenomena. It is expected that global vehicle production will grow at around 4% over the rest of the decade. On the other hand, mainly driven by stringent fuel economy requirement and cross-functional ne

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Date:

01/10/2014

Managing hold up/transparency time in high-reliability power supplies

Christophe Massenet, GAIA Converter

As soon as a power supply designer needs to comply with military standards, he might need to take into account the transparency or holdup requirement. Transparency requirement is the minimum amount of time during which input power can go away but the equipment is expected to remain operational. This power int

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Date:

01/07/2014

Ceramics provide high-voltage insulation for unique gas plasma engine

Marc Fichou, Morgan Advanced Materials

When researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) went looking for a material from which to make a custom-made plasma cavity for a new gas plasma space engine, they were directed to Morgan Advanced Materials, a world leader in high purity Alumina custom-made, high precision ceramic components. After providing

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Date:

01/02/2014