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Small and Light Converters for 33W Flyback PWM Controllers
Performance eMotorsport Vehicles with Integrated Active Clamp

Circuits
BrightLoop Converters has reduced the size, cost
and improved reliability of its latest BB SP DC-DC Silanna Semiconductor has announced the full
buck converters thanks to Efficient Power Con- production release of the industry-leading ex-
version Corporation’s (EPC) EPC2029 enhance- panded portfolio of Active Clamp Flyback Con-
24 V dual-channel low side Family of Titanium Efficiency AC to ment-mode gallium nitride (eGaN®) FET tran- trollers (ACF). Silanna Semiconductor focuses on
EiceDRIVER™ with enable function DC Power Supplies sistors. By switching from silicon (Si) transistors the ultimate Power Management challenges with

and integrated thermal pad to gallium nitride (GaN), BrightLoop was able to the best-in-class power density and efficiency
Transphorm, Inc. and Bel Power Solutions have increase the switching frequency of their design that delight customers with unprecedented BoM
Infineon Technologies broadens its EiceDRIVER™ stated that six of Bel’s Titanium Efficiency Pow- from 200 kHz to 600 kHz, while keeping the same savings. First announced in April 2020, Silan-
portfolio with the new 24 V dual-channel low side er Supplies use Transphorm’s high voltage GaN efficiency. This design change increased the power na Semiconductor has achieved full production
gate driver with an integrated thermal pad. It can FETs. This news indicates the growing trend of density of the solution by a factor of approximately release of the SZ1110, a 33W Integrated Active
be operated with high switching frequencies as high performance, wide bandgap power supply two and this resulted in lower cost by enabling the Clamp Flyback Controller, delivering on the cus-
well as highest peak output currents and offers units (PSUs) being deployed in datacenter serv- implementation of a smaller enclosure. tomer expectations and market penetration by
an enable function. The gate driver is suitable for ers, routers, and network switches. They include dominating the ACF market.
applications with higher switching frequencies the TET3000 series, which achieve Titanium
such as power factor correction and synchronous efficiency with GaN being used in the AC-to-DC
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(PFC) power stage.

Complete Energy-Meter Evaluation Nexperia announces plans to grow
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and Robust Galvanic Isolation spend

Expanding Production Capacity of 300W Single Output Power Supply A new evaluation board from STMicroelectronics Nexperia has confirmed that it will be making
SiC Power Devices Sager Electronics is now stocking SL Power’s speeds design of 3-phase AC Watt meters that significant additional global investments in manu-

GU300 300W single output open frame power meet the most stringent international quality and facturing capacity and research and development
ROHM has recently held an opening ceremony supplies. SL Power’s GU300 series are medical accuracy standards using low-cost, electromag- during 2021. The new investments are in line with a
announcing the completion of a new building at power supplies with digital control and moni- netic-immune shunt sensors and advanced gal- growth strategy that last year saw Wingtech Tech-
ROHM Apollo’s Chikugo plant to enhance the pro- toring for more precise in-system operation. SL vanic-isolation technology for superior reliability nology, Nexperia’s parent company, commit RMB12
duction capacity of SiC power devices. The new Power GU300 features a screwless design with no and robustness. The EVALSTPM-3PHISO evaluation billion ($1.85 billion) to building a new 300mm (12-
building is an environmentally friendly factory top-side heatsink, allowing for a more automated board combines the high-accuracy STPMS2 meter- inch) power semiconductor wafer fab in Lingang,
that introduces a number of energy-saving tech- assembly. This design also increases reliability ing front-end IC and the advanced STISO621 digital Shanghai. This factory, which will go live in 2022,
nologies to its production facilities, with 100% and cost-effectiveness. This open frame power isolator, with customizable turn-key firmware will have an estimated annual output of 400,000
of its electricity coming from renewable energy supply series meets Class B EMI levels with mar- running on an STM32 microcontroller to compute wafers.
sources. gin, which eases integration of the power supply
into end equipment. metrology and power-quality data.

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