Electronic Design

Test Saturation Voltage to Achieve High Efficiency

Efficiency is the name of the game in the design of power supplies. This is a major reason why switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) are chosen for power-supply designs. However, even SMPSs have their ...
New Atlas

Ultra-high voltage transistors aim to boost EV range and efficiency

A University at Buffalo team has proposed a new form of power MOSFET transistor that can handle incredibly high voltages with minimal thickness, heralding an efficiency increase in the power ...
Electronics Weekly

Thick metalisation cuts transistors' saturation voltage

Improved metalisation is the key to cutting on-resistance in Zetex Gen5 transistors. Reverse blocking Zetex is promoting its PNP Gen5 devices for power switching positive rails in sub-3.3V ...
Electronic Design

Safety Device Helps Measure High Voltage Power Transistors With Oscilloscope

Saelig Company, Inc. has announced availability of the CLIPPER CLP1500V15A1, an oscilloscope adapter that allows small voltages to be measured in the presence of very high voltages, such as those ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors

Researchers demonstrate “a low-voltage organic ternary logic circuit, in which the organic HTR was vertically integrated with the organic nonvolatile flash memory.” “Multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits ...
Design-Reuse

How Low Can You Go? Pushing the Limits of Transistors - Deep Low Voltage Enablement of Embedded Memories and Logic Libraries to Achieve Extreme Low Power

Rising demand for cutting-edge mobile, IoT, and wearable devices, along with high compute demands for AI and 5G/6G communications, has driven the need for lower power systems-on-chip (SoCs). This is ...