The TS3310 is a low power boost converter with an industry-leading low quiescent current of 150nA, enabling ultra long battery life in systems operating from a variety of battery sources. The TS3310 is the industry’s only boost converter to specify its no-load supply current with an actively switching boost engine, providing a more accurate picture …
STMicroelectronics along with the audio company U Sound has created the first MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) micro-loudspeaker based on semiconductors. It’s the smallest loudspeaker in the world, but it can produce a powerful noise. MEMS makes it possible. The speakers are being presented at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. In the audio world, the electromechanical capabilities of MEMS have only been …
World’s Smallest MEMS Micro-Loudspeaker Saves 80 Percent More Energy Read More »
PORTLAND, Ore.–Now before you get all excited by the headline, which is not click-bait according to the researchers, a new kind of nano scale rectenna (half antenna and half rectifier) can convert solar and infrared into electricity, plus be tuned to nearly any other frequency as a detector. The invention was made at Georgia Tech …
Solar Cells Made Obsolete – 3D rectennas aim at 40-to-90% efficiency Read More »
Introduction This article describes simple constant current driver module with fast PWM input that can be used for driving medium and high power LEDs. The module uses an integrated constant-current output, DC-DC buck converter with output current configurable from 0.1 to 0.5A. This article outlines the schematic, design guidelines, operation, and performance of the low …
A low-cost 0.5A 33V LED driver module with 90+% efficiency Read More »
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards “the Internet of things”—the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment, and even livestock would have their own embedded sensors that report information directly to networked servers, aiding with maintenance and the coordination of tasks. Realizing that vision, however, will require extremely low-power sensors that …
Ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent Read More »
