Electronic Design

Power-Density Goals Can be Helped by Soft-Switching Options

Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...
Electronic Design

An Example of Intelligent Power-Supply Design

Using a microcontroller to manage the operation of a switching power supply allows designers to implement new programmable features previously unavailable from stand-alone controller chips. Many of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Power-Aware Test: Addressing Power Challenges In DFT And Test

Integrated circuit (IC) sizes continue to grow as they meet the compute requirements of cutting-edge applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, and data centers. As design ...
EDN

Power Tips #140: Designing a data center power architecture with supply and processor rail-monitoring solutions

Machine intelligence enables a new era of productivity and is becoming an integral part of our lives and societies across many disciplines and functions. Machine intelligence relies on computing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Low Power Verification & Debug Methodology Using Power-Aware Simulation

Isolation, retention, and power switches are some of the important functionalities of power-aware designs that use some of the common low power techniques (e.g.) power shutoff, multi-voltage and ...
EDN

Reduce EMI and power loss in dual-battery automotive systems with optimized power-stage layout

The traditional 12V automotive lead-acid battery architecture has reached its usable power limit, given the growing load-power requirements of advanced automotive systems, the conversion from ...