| Power Management Europe Newsletter |
A good week for start-ups seeking to progress their technologies and businesses with ReVolt Technology Ltd (Staefa, Switzerland) signing a joint-development agreement with BASF to speed the commercialization of ReVolt's rechargeable zinc-air battery system. Elsewhere, energy harvesting start-up Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc., has also received $8 million in additional funding to help expand its market presence.
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| Power Article |
Addressing Today's Automotive Design Challenges with a Higher Power and Lower Dissipation Solenoid Driver Solution
Optimization of desired functional performance at an acceptable and reasonable cost is a worthwhile objective for any new product. The Fairchild Dual Integrated Solendoid Driver FDMS2380 has been designed for demanding automotive environments with high temperatures and electromagnetic interference level.
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| Power Management |
Nextreme raises an extra $8 million for energy harvesting
Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc. (Durham, North Carolina), a maker of thermal management products, has announced it has raised $8 million in additional Series B financing from undisclosed corporate investors.
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Actel begins shipping development kit for Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs
Actel Corporation (Mountain View, California, USA) has begun shipping the Fusion Advanced Development Kit, which features Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs and enables the development of system and power management applications in a single board with multiple on-board voltage regulators, an array of indicator LEDs, and an OLED display to provide direct feedback on flag status, system messages, and voltage, temperature, or current readings.
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Mixed-Signal Power Manager provides GUI tool for Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs
Actel Corporation (Mountain View, California, USA) has introduced its free Mixed-Signal Power Manager (MPM), which is a reference design and graphical user interface (GUI) tool included in the Fusion Advanced Development Kit.
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Audio hubs enable multimedia mobile phones to deliver Pure Sound at ultra low power
Wolfson Microelectronics is introducing the first device in a new family of ultra low power audio hub CODECs for multimedia mobile phones and other feature-rich portable audio applications.
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Authentication IC provides battery protection
Atmel has announced the AT88SA100S ultra low-cost, cryptographic battery authentication IC for mobile-phones, cameras, portable power tools, and other battery-powered applications.
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| Solar Technology |
Ericsson and Telecom Italia trials sustainable solar site solution
Ericsson and Telecom Italia are to run a trial of the Eco-Smart solution, which is based on flexible solar panels, in the Italian city of L'Aquila, where G8 leaders will meet this week to discuss, among other topics, the challenges posed by climate change ahead of December's United Nations conference on climate in Copenhagen.
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IMT of EFPL to collaborate with BrightView Systems on solar cell process optimization
The Thin-Film Photovoltaics Laboratory at Neuchatel Institute of Microengineering (IMT), a world leading lab in silicon-based thin-film solar cells research, and BrightView Systems, a developer of production process optimization tools for the solar industry are joining forces to introduce novel solutions for the optimization of next generation thin-film solar cells production.
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Solyndra snatches $238 million order
Photovotaic systems vendor Solyndra, Inc. will provide solar panels in the value of $238 million to German solar system integrator Umwelt-Sonne-Energie GmbH (USE). With the contract, Solyndra's order backlog will climb to more than $2 billion.
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Solar inverter factory pioneers clean manufacturing
SMA Solar Technology AG has inaugurated its 18,000 square meter solar inverter factory in Kassel, Germany, taking its annual production capacity to 4GW.
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| Power Supplies and Batteries |
ReVolt Technology partners BASF to develop rechargeable zinc-air battery
Rechargeable zinc-air battery developer, ReVolt Technology Ltd (Staefa, Switzerland) has signed a joint-development agreement with BASF to speed the development and commercialization of ReVolt's rechargeable zinc-air battery system.
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Volvo plug-in hybrid demonstration cars to be power by Ener1 lithium-ion batteries
Volvo Car Corporation has selected advanced, lithium-ion battery systems designed and produced by Ener1, Inc. to power a pair of plug-in hybrid V70 demonstration cars being put through their paces across Europe later this year as part of a development program leading up to the planned 2012 commercial launch of a production plug-in model.
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Dual-channel, sink/source current DAC simplifies power-supply margin testing
Maxim Integrated Products has introduced a low-cost, dual-channel, sink/source current DAC.
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| Power Components |
NXP claims world's first sub 1 milliOhm MOSFET in a Power S08 package
NXP Semiconductors has unveiled the world's first n-channel sub 1 milliOhm 25 V MOSFET, PSMN1R2-25YL, and is claiming the lowest ever RDSon and best in class Figure of Merit.
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Quad-output, high-voltage EL lamp driver offer optimal brightness
Maxim Integrated Products has introduced a ±15kV ESD-protected, quad-output driver for multiple electroluminescent (EL) lamps.
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Dual load management switches offer tightest current limit tolerance
Fairchild Semiconductor is providing designers of set-top boxes, notebooks, netbooks and ultra-mobile portable devices (UMPCs) a new family of advanced load switches, the FPF23xx series.
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Low-power multi-channel radio modules suit industrial use
LPRS introduces the latest narrowband radio modules from Circuit Design, Inc.
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Dual MOSFET delivers high efficiency, boosts power density in synchronous buck applications
Fairchild Semiconductor is offering designers a dual MOSFET solution that delivers higher efficiency and power density for notebooks, netbooks, servers, telecom and other DC-DC designs.
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Power connectors are rated up to 750 A
ACAL Technology is sampling a range of power connectors designed to deliver the combination of high power rating, small footprint and competitive pricing required for battery connection in electric drive vehicles and in a wide range of industrial applications.
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2.4 GHz transceivers consume less than10 uA
Nordic nRF24AP2 next generation single chip ANT solutions redefine ultra low power wireless connectivity benchmark with sub-10 uA average current consumption.
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RJ-45 jack suits Power-over-Ethernet
The SUYIN series 101110F91 L2M416ZA is an RJ45 jack with filter providing a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) connection (two entry and four outgoing pins) thus saving a separate power cable as well an extra dc jack on the circuit board.
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| Footnote: |
| On the solar technology front it is interesting to see that the Thin-Film Photovoltaics Laboratory at Neuchatel Institute of Microengineering (IMT), a world leading lab in silicon-based thin-film solar cells research, and BrightView Systems, a developer of production process optimization tools for the solar industry are joining forces to introduce novel solutions for the optimization of next generation thin-film solar cells production. |
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