As the world moves towards greater use of renewable energy, the storage and conversion of this energy used in everyday homes is being transformed. In this article, we will highlight a presentation by Jacob Mueller, senior technologist in Sandia National Laboratories' Energy Storage Technologies and Systems Division, on the key trends and challenges involved in this transformation, which highlights the role of power electronics and energy storage.
With the introduction of wide band gap devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), power electronics technology has undergone tremendous changes. In fact, the properties of these materials make them particularly suitable for applications that operate at high pressures and high switching frequencies, and can provide better efficiency and heat management than the most advanced silicon-based power devices.
What is the use of ic chips in this article? What is an ic chip? How to judge the quality of ic chip? IC Chip (Integrated Circuit Chip) is an integrated circuit formed by a large number of microelectronic components (transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc.) placed on a plastic base to make a chip. IC chip includes wafer chip and package chip, and the corresponding IC chip production line is composed of wafer production line and package production line.
As new markets and applications continue to emerge, the demand for mobile data has skyrocketed. There is no solution other than deploying more cellular sites at greater density. These factors will directly affect the design of macro base station, small base station and femtobase station products. Now that radios support multi-band operation, power amplifier (PA) design engineers are trying to push the output power of PA to higher limits/levels.
With the increasingly serious problem of energy shortage, how to effectively use energy, improve energy utilization in a more intelligent way, and save energy will be one of the key elements in the application of smart buildings. KNX is an open standard for commercial and residential building automation, and this article will introduce you to the development of KNX standards and applications, as well as related solutions that support KNX technology.
LED lights have been widely used in a variety of lighting environments, and with the upgrading of technology, light efficiency is also gradually improving, showing more and more advantages in practical applications. Nevertheless, in the endless pursuit of efficiency, efficiency is still one of the key design considerations because of the large amount of use and long time of automotive lighting. Efficiency is critical in electronic systems where space is limited, and in these designs the LED driver is installed very close to the LED assembly in the headlight, taillight, or side turn indicator.
Over the past few years, the global electric vehicle (EV) has maintained strong growth. According to Energy Innovation, by 2050, electric vehicles will account for 65% to 75% of global light vehicle sales and establish a dominant position in future mobility.
As systems become more data-centric, monitors in industrial, iot, home medical wearables, fitness and health are experiencing explosive growth. These data-centric systems are increasingly demanding more features and lower power consumption. This trend is driven by intelligent systems that actively monitor a person or environment and make predictive responses, including alarms, actions, or recommended actions.
Giving the robot the ability to perceive and move the environment makes the robot safer and more mobile. If combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, it will make the robot smarter and more practical, making the future development of robots very imaginative space. This article will explore the development of robot perception and AI technology, as well as the related solutions introduced by many manufacturers.
If the robot wants to move autonomously, it needs to have 3D perception (3D perception) function, and various sensors must be used to grasp the position of the robot in space in real time, among which LiDAR (laser radar) can provide high-precision position sensing, which has received the most attention from the industry. In addition, the robot also needs to be driven by motors to perform precise movements of itself or its limbs. This article will introduce you to the development of LiDAR technology and the LiDAR and motor drive solutions introduced by ROHM.
After more than fifty years of historical development, the complexity of converting DC voltage into another DC voltage display in electronic circuits has continued to increase, and modern designs have incredibly high power density while increasing efficiency to maintain small power. RECOM has many innovative designs that apply high-power supply design techniques to low-power converters in small packages.
The robot must be equipped with multiple motors to be able to move the main body of the robot or the arms and limbs of the robot, which use the brushless direct current motor (BLDC) as the mainstream, in order to efficiently drive the brushless motor, it is necessary to choose the appropriate brushless motor driver. This article will introduce you to the characteristics and selection points of brushless motors and drives, as well as the product features of brushless motor drives from onsemi.
Power converter control plays a crucial role in optimizing the overall performance of a power conversion system. With proper control, the efficiency of the power converter can be maximized, energy loss reduced and component life extended. By designing a complex control algorithm, the power conversion can be effectively and optimally managed while keeping the output voltage and current of the power converter constant.
As an overcurrent protection device, fuses, with the changes in demand and technology, have derived some products with their own characteristics on the basis of traditional disposable fuses, including material devices self-recovery fuses, temperature fuses, explosive fuses and semiconductor devices electronic fuses. This chapter focuses on the working characteristics and advantages of electronic fuses. It can be used as a new choice of overcurrent protection scheme.
There are thousands of different switching regulators on the market, and users choose the type they want based on different parameters, such as input voltage range, output voltage range, maximum output current, and many other parameters. In this article, ADI introduces current mode, an important feature commonly found in data books, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of this mode.
Nowadays, the mobility ecosystem continues to create new challenges for automotive design, particularly with regard to the size, safety and reliability of electronic solutions. In addition, as automotive electric control units (ECUs) add connectivity and cloud computing capabilities, new solutions must be developed to address these technical challenges.
With the increasing demand for automation in the 21st century, robots are advancing at an unprecedented pace in numerous industries such as logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, and food distribution. Human-machine interaction, precise control and human-machine collaboration security are the cornerstones of automation adoption. Safe and precise control of the robot's multifaceted tasks, such as collision detection, obstacle avoidance and navigation, is achieved by a suite of sensors.
The main function of the battery management system (BMS) is to monitor cell voltage, battery pack voltage and battery pack current. In addition, given the high voltage design of the BMS, it is necessary to measure the insulation resistance between the high and low voltage domains to catch defects in the cell structure and prevent dangerous conditions from occurring.
