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Predictive Power: Innovations for Grid Stability

Ben Sutherland, Senior Director of Sales at Power Integrations

The global energy transition is accelerating, driven by decarbonization targets, electrification of transport and industry, and the rapid deployment of renewable energy. At the same time, AI data centers are emerging as massive energy consumers, with projected power requirements reaching hundreds of megawatts pe

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Date:

06/29/2026

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Figure 1: A PIID acts as a permanent technical address that survives ownership transitions and software migrations, preventing the 'institutional amnesia' typical of multi-decade asset lifecycles

The Case for Persistent Infrastructure Identity in Power Systems

Trevor Vick, CEO, UMIP Inc.

Picture the commissioning closeout of a new substation or combined-cycle generation facility. Thousands of engineering hours have produced relay coordination studies, protection settings files, equipment FAT reports, arc-flash analyses, and as-built one-line diagrams. That documentation is the most complete te

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Basic Buck Converter Circuit (SWA Is On)

Designing an Optimized Input Filter for Buck Converters

Oleg Volfson, Staff Field Applications Engineer & Seema Venkatesh, Senior Technical Engineer, Monolithic Power Systems

This article will discuss how to optimize input filter design for application boards that contain single or multiple DC/DC converters on the same voltage bus. An optimized input filter minimizes the cost and component count while ensuring circuit stability, provides EMI compliance, and improves input voltage tra

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Data Center Power Distribution Architecture Evolution

Floating Ground Hot-Swap Architecture for Data Centers

Avishek Pal, and Rakesh Panguloori, Texas Instruments

The exponential growth of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud services is driving an unprecedented surge in data center power demands. Traditional 50V DC power distribution architectures, once sufficient for kilowatt-scale IT racks, are rapidly approaching physical and economic limits as AI workloads pu

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Unlike previous solutions, MotionMate can also be actively opened

Taking Your Life Back into Your Own Hands

Würth Elektronik Technical Team

This case study looks at how Würth Elektronik helped Powered Orthotics develop a new product to help people with limited hand function. Through a collaboration with Mannheim-based startup Powered Orthotics, Würth Elektronik is helping to drive innovation in the health tech sector: the smart MotionMate orthosis

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: a demonstration of how electrohydrodynamic (EHD) airflow is achieved

Ionic Cooling for AI Systems

Dr. Brian Cumpston, Senior Director, Application Engineering at Ventiva

From smartphones and laptops to automotive infotainment and smart IoT devices, the direction of travel is consistent: more functionality, more performance, and more intelligence, delivered in smaller and thinner form factors. For design engineers, this creates a familiar but intensifying challenge, and with ea

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Power Without Pause

Robin Schneider, PhD, Director of Marketing, Green Cubes Technology

The pressure on industrial and medical equipment manufacturers has never been more intense. Customers demand higher uptime, leaner operating costs, and power systems that adapt to the job rather than dictating its terms. Traditional fixed-battery architectures — solid and predictable as they may be — are in

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Simplified three-phase flying-capacitor inverter topology

Power Conversion for 1000 V Battery Systems

Kritika Murari, Marketing Manager, Power Division, Bourns

The global transition toward a decentralized renewable energy infrastructure has fundamentally changed the voltage and density requirements of utility-scale Energy Storage Systems (ESS). To reduce conduction losses, minimize cable cross-sections, and optimize structural balance-of-system (BOS) costs, modern ES

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Simplified BMS topology showing charge and discharge MOSFETs

Designing Robust Discharge Switches for High-Voltage Battery Management Systems

Ryan Manack, Vice President of Marketing, iDEAL Semiconductor

While higher-voltage battery platforms improve efficiency and reduce current, they also introduce a more demanding challenge: safely managing fault energy during abnormal conditions. External short circuits in high-voltage systems can generate extreme currents within microseconds, placing the battery managemen

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Simplified block diagram for the L99BM114 BMS

Battery Management Accuracy Strengthens Humanoid Robot Reliability

Giusy Gambino, Salvatore Cannavacciuolo, Andrea Botta, and Luigi Di Turi STMicroelectronics, Italy

Humanoid robots are redefining power-density constraints. To preserve agility and reduce structural inertia, designers typically place the battery pack deep within the torso or pelvis. This compact architecture means the energy-storage system must operate inside a sealed enclosure, often alongside high-perfo

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Date:

07/01/2026

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Figure 1: Impact of capacity-mismatched cells during battery pack charging and discharging

A Deeper Look into Active Balancing on BMS

Frank Zhang, Applications Engineer, Analog Devices

In a BMS, multiple individual cells are typically connected in seriestoformahighvoltagebatterypack.Thishighvoltagebattery pack is the supply for various systems, including electric vehicles, high-voltage energy storage systems, and uninterruptible power supplies. In these series-connected cells, the ideal op

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Date:

07/01/2026

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