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POWER MANAGEMENT: Overview
Power Management focuses on portable battery management, power supplies and components, uninterrupted power supplies and includes automotive, battery, digital-power, display-drivers, high-voltage, lighting and mil/aero/harsh-environments.

The key market trend in the power management industry is energy efficient products and solutions to help operators reduce their operating expenses drastically, to address the economic viability issue on one hand and environmental concerns on the other.

POWER MANAGEMENT: News

DC/ DC Power Conversion :: Fairchild Semiconductor's 8A Buck Regulator Achieves 95 Percent Peak Efficiency in Servers, Workstations and Distributed POL Applications

Fairchild Semiconductor enables power designers to achieve higher output current and high efficiency using less PCB space with its TinyBuckTM DC-DC regulator.   >>  

Battery Management :: National Semiconductor Introduces Six PowerWise Energy-Efficient Subsystem Reference Designs

Six new PowerWise reference designs from National Semiconductor Corp. empower design engineers to speed through the design process, delivering products that consume less power, extend battery life...  >>  

AC/ DC Power Conversion :: Power Integrations Introduces Five New TOPSwitch-HX Offline Switcher ICs in Ultra-Low-Profile eSIP-L Package

Power Integrations has launched five new members of its popular TOPSwitch-HX family of AC-DC power conversion ICs in the company's new 2-mm-high e-SIP-L package.  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Blogs

Digital Power Management :: Is it Time to Regulate Power Management Semiconductor Efficiency?

By George Hall, Summit Microelectronics, Inc. Makers of semiconductors have often operated in a self-governing, self-regulating manner when it came to key design goal parameters which affect system and overall efficiencies; including the power consumed by the IC itself.  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Semiconductor Solutions

Battery Management :: TMS320F2803x/2x Piccolo MCUs -- real-time control for greater energy efficiency to cost sensitive applications

Piccolo MCUs, the new F2803x/2x devices feature architectural advancements and enhanced peripherals in packages from 38-pins to bring the benefits of 32-bit real-time control to applications... [from Texas Instruments]  >>  

Power-over-Ethernet :: Power over Ethernet (PoE)

PD and PSE Solutions - Silicon Labs' Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions address both ends of the Ethernet cable. - Si3400/01 PD interface and switching regulator - Si3460 PSE interface with... [from Silicon Laboratories]  >>  

DC/ DC Power Conversion :: Silicon Labs Introduces First Single Port PoE Interface with Integrated DC-DC Controller

Silicon Laboratories, provider of analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced the industry’s first dual-function, single-port Power over Ethernet (PoE) controller with an integrated... [from Silicon Laboratories]  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Application Resources

Battery Management White Papers :: Achieving Low Power in 65-nm Cyclone III FPGAs

With the introduction of the 65-nm Cyclone® III family, Altera continues to deliver greater capabilities to designers of cost-sensitive high-volume applications. The move to the 65-nm process...  >>  

Battery Management Application Notes :: Fairchild's FAN4800 Power Factor Correction (PFC) and PWM Controller Combo

The FAN4800 is a controller for power-factor-corrected, switched-mode power supplies.  >>  

DC/ DC Power Conversion White Papers :: CURRENT-MODE MODELING FOR PEAK, VALLEY AND EMULATED CONTROL METHODS

Reference Guide for Fixed-Frequency, Continuous Conduction-Mode Operation  >>  

Automotive Power Management Application Notes :: Automotive Solutions

Whether specifying an intelligent ignition control for high performance engine management systems or developing  Products to optimize power management in a next-generation hybrid vehicle,...  >>  

Power Conversion White Papers :: POWER CONVERSION PROCESSOR TM ARCHITECTURE

This white paper details out International Rectifier's Power Conversion Processor TM Architecture. Monolithic integration of high voltage circuits for gate driving with protection, soft start...  >>  

Voltage Reference Application Notes :: Shunt Voltage References

Designing Switching Voltage Regulators With the TL494 and Implementing a Direct Thermocouple Interface With MSP430x4xx and ADS1240  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Reference Designs

DC/ DC Power Conversion :: Fairchild Semiconductor's 40V Synchronous Rectifier Offers Industry's Best Figure of Merit for Switching Designs

Fairchild Semiconductor enables designers to achieve higher levels of efficiency in their power designs with its 40V breakdown DC-DC synchronous rectifier.  >>  

DC/ DC Power Conversion :: Micrel Gives Consumer Market A Jolt With Cost Savings For DC-To-DC Converters

Micrel today gave the consumer market a boost in cost savings and enhanced voltage with its new Non-Synchronous PWM buck regulator.  Operating at 2 MHz, the MIC4724 is the latest addition to...  >>  

DC/ DC Power Conversion :: Fairchild Semiconductor Releases Industry's Fastest Two-Bit Auto Direction Detection Translator

Fairchild provides designers a voltage translation solution that minimizes the delay in the timing budget of signal path applications such as notebooks, cell phones, GPSs and displays.  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Web Seminars

Power Conversion :: Texas instruments and arrow electronics present live webcast on maximizing data converter performance with improved voltage reference

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW) will present a live Analog eLab TM Webcast for designers titled "Improved Voltage Reference Circuits...  >>  

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POWER MANAGEMENT: Related Articles

Display Driving :: Dialog Semiconductor's SmartXtend drivers ICs will be used to demonstrate video on a 3inch W-QVGA passive matrix OLED panel at FPD exhibition, Japan

Dialog Semiconductor announces that its SmartXtend technology based driver ICs will be used by TDK for its PMOLED video display using a 3inch W-QVGA panel.  >>  

AC/ DC Power Conversion :: FAN4810 - Power Factor Correction (PFC) Preregulator

The FAN4810 is a controller for power factor corrected, switched mode power supplies. The FAN4810 includes circuits for the implementation of leading edge, average current, “boost”...  >>  

High Voltage Power Management :: FAN7888 - 3Ch. Half Bridge Gate Driver

The Fairchild FAN7888 is a monolithic three half-bridge gate-drive IC designed for high-voltage, high-speed driving MOSFETs and IGBTs operating up to +200V.  >>  

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