Triple Treat for a Triple Output

When using DC/DC Converters, other companies would just give their clients a single output. What if they'll change their mind and want another set of output ranges? One thing's for sure, they're going to buy another component. Or what if the clients would need a specific selection of outputs? The sure thing there is that, when clients are not satisfied with what you give, they're not going to come back for another buy.

So MicroPower Direct made something that could satisfy the need of a client. Let me have that honor to present to you, MPD's F3000TERU. It's a series of 8 standard models of DC/DC converters that offers a specific set of input and output values. 

Now, if you're a design engineer, a student, a hobbyist, or a technician, try using F3000TERU. See if you'll be satisfied, just as what others felt after using this component. Ciao!

Low Power Charger

While doing some research about just anything, I stopped on an interesting topic. How about some low power CV/CC charger design? 

This is made possible by LinkSwitch-3 family of IC brought to us by Power Integrations. Well, as what I stumbled upon, LinkSwitch-3 has 14 different part numbers that come in 3 different output power and 3 different packaging to suit the needs of the clients. Take a good look on the circuit diagram.

It is said that, to have an energy efficient USB charger power supply, the average efficiency should be not less than 78% and <30 mW No-load power consumption. So when you're designing you own power supply or charger for your mobile phone and other gadgets, try using one of the LinkSwitch-3 IC family, you'll surely get satisfied. Got it? Ciao! See yah

All for a safer road

Are car manufacturers designing cars for relaxation? For speed? How about for safety? Are our cars built to protect us while we are on the road? Now that our cars have evolved and built for speed, luxury, and maximum usage, do we know some things on how we'll be safer?

With the tests conducted back at the TE Circuit Protection lab, the engineers designed a breakthrough in making cars safer than ever before. Direct wiring, less connections, more fault isolation, and each node protected by a resettable circuit protection device. With the use of PolySwitch PPTC, manufacturers can route power cables via the most direct path from the source to the load.

A light weight and fault safe car is a must when we want to own a car. So the next time you want to buy a car, try asking your dealer about this great innovation. Drive safe everyone. Not only do we need to be a defensive driver, but we also must have a safer car. Ciao!

Cirrus Logic on Dimmable LEDs

As the world evolved from using candles to incandescent lamps to fluorescent lamps, now to LED lamps. LEDs are far more cost effective, less maintenance, and high life-span. In the presence of so many dimmable lighting fixtures, LED is still the most cost-effective.

Which is why, Cirrus Logic designed two high performance single-stage dimmable offline AC/DC controllers. These provide unmatched single lamp and parallel lamp dimmer-compatibility performance.

Want your LED to be dimmer or brighter without using any expensive and inefficient products that other manufacturers provide? Use Cirrus Logic's CS1615/16. Then you will know how you can save up money from electricity bills and without experiencing too much heat in your surroundings.

Next up, Flexible Stackup Type PCB

Electronic components nowadays are trying to maximize the space when making a design, a prototype, and especially a finish product. This goes also with student making projects and hobbyist making stuffs. Heard about flexible printed circuit design? How about stack-up type of PCB? How much more a flexible stack-up type PCB? Isn't this great? Well here's what Altium offers you.

According to an article, Flex and Rigid-Flex Printed Circuit Design, "A rigid-flex is a flexible printed circuit is a pattern of conductors printed onto a flexible insulating film. Rigid-flex is the name given to a printed circuit that is a combination of both flexible circuit(s) and rigid circuit(s), as shown in the image above. This combination is ideal for exploiting the benefits of both flexible and rigid circuits – the rigid circuits can carry all or the bulk of the components, with the flexible sections acting as interconnections between the rigid sections."

Still, according to that same article that I found, there are about four types of Flex and Rigid-Flex Layer Stackup. These are Single Layer, Double Layer, Multi-layer, and Multi-layer Rigid-Flex.

 

So all of you out there, better consider and even re-consider using this marvelous design offered by ALTIUM. With the help of Altium Designer, virtually, anyone would be able to design his/her PCB layout in a more space conscious way. Anyways, the more your going to be space thrift, the more cost-effective your projects would be.

Super Dev Board? You want?

At Lapis Semiconductors, the designers are basically wanting to make everyone entertained. With its newest addition to its line of dev boards, Lapis introduces to everyone, including me I guess, the LAPIS Dev Board. To all those developers, enthusiasts, geeks, techies, and even to the newbies, this LAPIS Dev Board will surely not just give you fun, but will also educate you.

With integrated Raspberry Pi Sockets, Debug Port, USB Port for GUI, Prototyping Area, and other features, LAPIS will bring out the best in a development board. Featuring LAPIS's latest low power micro controllers, the ML610Q111 and ML610Q112. Also, this newest dev board by LAPIS has an U8 core which is an 8 bit core the executes 1 instruction per clock cycle.

LAPIS targets companies which manufactures LED Lighting Control with this dev board. It enables a versatile control of brightness and color while reducing design footprint which LAPIS dev board's 16bit PWM offers. Are you a company that produces LED lighting? Or a bar that has LED lighting? Or a student who wants LED lighting as a project? Well, you can just think of this as just a SUGGESTION, why not use LAPIS dev board? Is this dev board still not interests you yet? Then click me for you to find out how great this piece of innovation is. Ciao everyone, enjoy!

Power to a DC

I made a research about some of the best AC to DC power supplies available in the market for industry use. Usually for a household setting a typical Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) is used for several purposes. But it’s way,way different in an industrial setting. A typical this:

won’t satisfy the needs of this.

Which is why, a great company that designs and manufactures Power-Factor-Corrected (PFC) AC to DC power supplies came up with an idea of which is now called the PFE series. POWER ONEs PFE series have in fact 2 types of power supplies. One which supplies 1100 W and the other which supplies 850 W.

The two power supplies have the same physical appearance but they only differ slightly on their specifications. Here’s the specs of these two great power supplies.

Improving or designing, cool stuffs are needed

Does your company needs some cool stuff? Does your company needs some improvement in your system? Or do you want to design you own system? Are these features you badly need: increased internal operating frequency of 166MHz, a 64-bit memory bus, support for six independent layers, advanced alpha-blending features and enhanced video input facilities? Then you should have this for yourself.

Presenting Fujitsu's very own, 166 MHz Coral Q Device. A component which features display resolutions up to 1024x768 and 6-layers of overlay display (windows) and geometry processors. It has and RGB digital and analog output with built-in alpha blending, anti-aliasing and Chroma keying. Are these features not cool yet?

Then maybe these additional features will do:

• CMOS 0.18 µm technology
• Display resolutions up to 1024×768
• 6 layers of overlay display (windows)
• Alpha Plane
• Geometry processor
• RGB digital output (8bit x 3)
• RGB analog output
• Includes various kinds of 2D/3D graphic acceleration functions
• Built-in alpha blending, anti-aliasing and chroma-keying
• External SDRAM or FCRAM interface @ 133MHz for up to 64 MB graphic memory
• Configurable CPU-interface for FR30, SH3, SH4, V83x CPUs
• Supply voltage 3.3 V (I/O), 1.8V (Internal)
• QFP-256 Package
• Temperature range -40 to +85 °C

When you're a designer, a hobbyist, and just loves to get your hands on an electronic component, this diagram would help you. With Fujitsu's Coral Q, you'll sure to have a fair share of fun and satisfaction.

Small but Terrible SRF Inductors!

News about SRF Inductors? Here’s what Coilcraft could offer.

First off, let’s know what SRF means. SRF or Self-Resonant Frequency, the frequency corresponding to the wire being used in an inductor being a half-wave long. It is also the lowest frequency at which an inductor resonates with its self-capacitance. Here’s how to solve SRF:

Now that we know what's SRF, let's go to Coilcraft's newest Shielded High SRF Inductors, the 1812PS.

This tiny piece of component has just what it takes to called, "Small but Terrible". 1812PS has a higher SRF, high inductance with tight tolerance, and has an excellent current handling for a part this size. Mean right? That's just not it. Though this one's small, it has a ceramic/ferrite core material, and has RoHS complaint silver-palladium-platinum-glass frit terminations. True to its size, this only weighs around 286 to 323 mg.