Sponsored by Texas Instruments: High voltage and wide-input voltage swings create problems in pretty much any design, but innovative IC solutions are available to quell those issues.
The TIDA-01480 reference design is a scalable power supply designed to provide power to the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ (ZU+) family of MPSoC devices and Artix- 7 FPGA devices.
The venerable 78xx series continues to march on in an array of electronic devices, but competition in this space has heated up from multiple companies.
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Maxim Integrated: Advanced electronics makes activity trackers—which are essentially miniature data-acquisition systems—more accurate and reliable.
This article presents a system that delivers power in a very small space, while lengthening battery life for each miniaturized element of the hearable system.
Engineers must be wary of safety, electromagnetic-compatibility, and thermal-management factors when installing open-frame and U-channel power supplies.
