Design-stage layout modifications offer IC design teams and decision-makers an effective way to improve power management, streamline design cycles and reduce costs. By adopting a shift-left approach ...

Wireless power transfer (WPT) systems transmit electrical energy from a power source to a load without physical connectors or wires, using electromagnetic fields. This idea goes as far back as the ...

Data center power requirements will change designs, industry workforce engineering requirements, according to Dell’Oro Group Credit: Dusan Petkovic / Shutterstock ...

Voltage ratings range from 5V to 200V to cover a wide variety of power-related applications. UMC provides its customers with user-friendly PDKs, design guidelines, sample layouts, and fundamental ...

The demand for smaller, lighter, and more efficient AC/DC USB power delivery (PD) chargers is always a challenge for power-supply design engineers. Below 100 W, the quasi-resonant flyback is still the ...

The wiring isn’t the only design undergoing change. 48-V systems are shifting from the typical function-based structure of wiring and CPU/MCU control to a “zone” architecture (Fig. 2).

Leon Kempner Jr is the principle Civil (Structural) engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). He is a registered Civil Engineer in Oregon and Washington States, USA. He obtained his PhD ...

In this roundup, Electronic Design surveys the current state of power GaN, covering everything from the latest GaN power FETs and other components to the challenges of integrating them into high ...