Batteries

Nexperia, the specialist in essential semiconductors, has just introduced the NBM7100 and NBM5100, new types of battery life boosting ICs designed to extend the life of a typical non-rechargeable lithium coin cell battery by up to 10x compared to competing solutions while also increasing its peak output current capability by …

Magnachip Semiconductor has released four new MXT LV Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs), using Super-Short Channel technology, to further expand Magnachip’s seventh-generation MXT LV MOSFET line-up for battery protection circuits of mobile devices. Super-Short Channel is Magnachip’s latest design technology to reduce Ron (the resistance of MOSFETs during on-state operation) by …

TDK Corporation has expanded the TDK-Lambda i7A series of non-isolated buck DC-DC converters with the industry-standard 1/16th brick pinout. The 60A output models have a 400W maximum rating, offering 0.8 – 8V adjustable outputs from a 12V nominal input. In addition, an option to adjust the over-current limit is now …

Innoscience Technology, the company founded to create a global energy ecosystem based on high-performance, low-cost, gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) power solutions, has announced that after OPPO and RealMe, the consumer electronics giant OnePlus is also using uses Innoscience’s bidirectional VGaN™ IC in the phone’s battery protection board, inside the handset. Innoscience’s INN040W048A …

Nordic Semiconductor has launched its nPM1300 Power Management IC (PMIC). With its two ultra efficient buck converters, two load switches/Low Drop Out voltage converters (LDOs) and integrated battery charging, the nPM1300 is described as suitable for battery-operated applications. It is designed to reduce an end-product’s Bill-of-Materials (BoM) by combining circuitry …

Diodes Incorporated has introduced a series of high-precision current shunt monitors designed to measure small sense voltages across a wide common-mode voltage range in electric vehicles (EVs): the ZXCT21xQ family. Automotive applications for these single-stage instrumentation amplifiers include current sensing of load/rail currents in brushless DC (BLDC) motor controllers, e-compressors, …

Pickering Interfaces, the provider of modular signal switching & simulation products for electronic test & verification, will showcase its Battery Management System (BMS) test demo on booth 1188 at Automotive Testing Expo 2023, Europe, at Messe Stuttgart in Germany from 13-15 June 2023. The world’s leading show for automotive testing, …

Durakool’s new CHV series of ceramic HVDC contactors provide battery isolation for electric vehicles (EVs), high voltage battery storage and for switching HVDC in solar panel applications. Switching high voltage DC up to 1500VDC, Durakool’s CHV series of ceramic contactors is suitable for high voltage DC battery and solar panel …

As a result of their collaboration, Bostik and Polytec PT are launching a new range of thermal conductive adhesives (TCA) to address the challenge of thermal management in the latest Cell-to-Pack (CTP) battery design for e-mobility solutions. Thermal management is vital to ensuring the operating temperature of EV-Battery systems remains …

Since adding Scienscope’s range of inspection solutions to its portfolio, Altus Group, a leading supplier of capital equipment for the electronics industry, has seen increasing interest in their technology. With the launch of Xspection 3000 this year, the success story is set to continue. The new Xspection 3000 X-ray machine …