Electronics Weekly

What I didn’t know about npn transistors – mosfet driving

The holiday gave me a chance to play with bipolar transistor mosfet drivers again. And things did not go quite as planned. I had been using the circuit on the right quite happily from a signal ...
EDN

Isolated FET pulse driver increases power rate and duty cycle

In power converters, pulse-drive circuits transmit the pulses a controller generates to the power transistor. Driver circuits must both transmit the controller's switching on/off signals with galvanic ...
Electronic Design

Power transistors, drivers, controllers energize diverse array of products

The Special Report on page 6 of this issue covers power supplies and loads and also offers coverage of products and technologies expected to be highlighted at APEC 2018, March 4-8 in San Antonio, TX.
Business Wire

Teledyne e2v HiRel Announces New 100 V High-Speed 20 MHz FET and GaN Transistor Driver Flip Chip Die

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teledyne e2v HiRel announces the new TD99102 UltraCMOS ® High-speed FET and GaN transistor driver offering very high switching speed of 20 MHz. The new flip-chip ...
Electronics Weekly

GaN power transistor drivers for military and high-rel

Teledyne e2v HiRel has introduced pair of isolated 650V 4A gate drivers aimed at GaN power transistors, offering 2.5kVrms isolation and 100% ac-dc testing at -55 to 125°C. TDGD271 is a single channel ...
EDN

Gate driver for GaN transistors adds galvanic isolation

A new gate driver claims to ease the adoption of gallium nitride (GaN) technology in consumer and industrial applications such as power supplies in computer servers, factory-automation equipment, ...
Wired

How To Move Big Electrons With an Arduino

Last week I explained how to use a motion sensor to trigger an event with an Arduino. The event we triggered was a simple blinking of an LED. You can do a lot with a bunch of LEDs if you use your ...
New Electronics

electronica - high speed gate driver for power transistor X-GaN

Mass production of Panasonic’s AN34092B high speed gate driver has started in November 2016, according to the company. The driver is optimised for driving the GaN power transistor X-GaN. The company ...
Business Wire

Panasonic to Start Mass Production of High-speed Gate Driver Dedicated to GaN Power Transistor X-GaN (TM)

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will start mass production of a high-speed gate driver (AN34092B) optimized for driving its GaN power transistor X-GaN ...
CIOL

Microsemi intros 150W driver transistor

IRVINE, US: Microsemi Corp., a leading manufacturer of high performance analog mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, has released a 150W power driver transistor for ...
Electronic Design

Enhanced GaAs HBT Driver Transistors Find Homes In Cell-Phone Basestations

While choosing the best power-amplifier (PA) transistors for a cell-phone basestation is challenging, the drivers for PAs are just as tough to select. Most current designs use LDMOS PAs as well as ...