This Week in PowerBites: 800-V DC Power, U.S. Energy Economy, Auto-Grade Components
- This issue of PowerBites focuses on NVIDIA’s recently announced 800-V DC power architecture for AI data centers, and the products and technologies emerging to support it.
- We also explore why America is losing its competitive edge in the global energy market, and offer a playbook to regain leadership.
- Our ProductBites section brings you a sampling of innovative power components and design tools for AI, automotive, and industrial applications.
Technology Features
Feeding the AI Beast
Powering the AI revolution with components to support NVIDIA’s new 800-V DC power architecture and a 12-kW high-density power-supply reference design.
Automotive Power
The latest harvest of automotive-grade components includes Zener-based protection, an innovative shunt resistor, and a driver for 48-V mild-hybrid applications.
Power in Motion
Advances in GaN half-bridge drivers and a stepper controller board help ease motion-control design.
The Power Tool Chest
Analog Devices' suite of power design, simulation, and analysis tools accelerate power-system design.
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About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.