Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices using the complete system impractical. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently. During HIL test, the physical system that interfaces...
Published: Feb 19, 2020
In the automotive market as in all industries, competition breeds innovation. Over the last 100 years, this truth has transformed the horseless carriage into one of the most useful and ubiquitous tools in the modern world. Automobiles have long been understood as mechanical devices, but recently, continuing innovation...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The Sine Amplitude Converter topology is the dynamic, high- performance engine at the heart of Vicor's new VI Brick Bus Converter products.
This whitepaper will discuss the operation of the SAC topology and present a market specific example of the effectiveness and benefits of the Vicor's Sine Amplitude...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Changes in power supply design are rarely revolutionary. Rather, they are evolutionary and dependent upon a host of component and manufacturing technologies that, for the most part, develop at a modest pace. Moore’s law simply doesn’t apply to power supply design; if it did, a 200 W switcher the size of a thumbnail...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
When first introduced, logic product offerings consisted of quad, hex and octal standard logic gates, inverters and buffers. As integration and miniaturization occurred, the demand for logic solutions continued to grow, but shifted toward “control” or “glue” logic.
Control logic...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
With the rapid spread of the IoT, many devices that were not connected to a network in the past increasingly require the integration of a communication module function. Conversely, the number and severity of security threats are also on the rise. Microcontrollers therefore must meet a range of demands, including smaller...
Published: Aug 27, 2019
Bus bridging, interfacing and control are common functions in many electronic systems. The use of these functions spans virtually every end market segment, including automotive, consumer, communications, computing, industrial and military.
In many cases, designers turn to programmable logic devices, either low-capacity...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Although not part of the PCI Express spec, nontransparent bridging is completely consistent with it and can support multiprocessor systems with only minimal software initialization efforts.
For PCI Express technology to realize its full potential as the interconnect solution for chip-to-chip and backplane switching...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
For applications requiring high power density and high power, but not requiring electrical isolation, the buck converter has been the workhorse topology for many years. Improvements in buck converters over the past few years have been limited by the power MOSFET’s sedate switching speeds.
In this paperEPC...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
This Whitpaper paper focuses on the new challenges of testing semiconductor devices for wideband 5G applications.The enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) use case points to supporting greater user data rates and increased system capacity. Departing from legacy 3G and 4G cellular standards, ...
Published: Nov 04, 2019
HPC (High Performance Computing) processors and memory loads continue to increase power demands at lower voltages while performance density and total cost of ownership challenges increase.
Efficient HV (high voltage) AC or DC distribution and power conversion to the loads are essential to maximize datacenter...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
The design of AC/DC power supplies is inevitably evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. It develops largely as a result of gradual improvements in semiconductors and passive component technologies and materials. Invariably, power supply design objectives involve not only meeting basic input and output specifications...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
As electronic systems continue to trend toward lower voltages with higher currents and as the speed of contemporary loads continues to increase, the power systems designer is challenged to provide small, costeffective and efficient solutions that offer the requisite performance.
Vicor’s new Factorized...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
The Picor PI33XX Cool-Power® ZVS Buck Regulator Series delivers maximum power density and high effi ciency point of load DC-DC regulation. This unique, high density, buck regulator integrates a high performance Zero-Voltage switching (ZVS) topology along with power and support components all within a surface mount...
Published: Jul 24, 2018