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May 10, 2022

Analog and Power

Aimtec Adds 9 New 1W And 2W DC/DC Converters To Its Low Power Win Family

Aimtec adds 9 new 1W and 2W DC-DC converters to their low power win family of converters. These are essentially a redesign to enhance performance and offer more economy to scale over the previous versions and the competition. All while maintaining the same footprint, SIP, DIP and SMD pin-outs

Green Watt Power Introduces A 200W DC-DC For EVs That Include Low Voltage Low-Cost Motorbikes

Green Watt power announced the EVD200 series of fully encapsulated, ruggedized DC-DC converters with an ultra-wide 40Vdc - 90Vdc input range and output voltage of 13.8 to power low voltage devices such as lights, instruments, and accessories, or act as a distribution voltage for subsystems.

Analog Device’s New Line Of ADCs Is Next-Generation Conversion Processes

ADI has launched a new line of SAR ADCs aimed at easing design challenges in fitting ADCs into instrumentation. These high-performance ADCs are part of the ADI Easy Drive technology, with a Flexi-SPI which solves many of the design challenges for developers in instrumentation. Accuracy is 0.9 ppm, with a typical of 0.1 ppm, and performance 105.7 dB signal to notice, coming in at high for both accuracy and performance.

Editor's Desk by Stephen Vicinanza

Analog and Power Converters DC-DC is Diving Instrumentation

Happy May, Circuit Cellar readers, everyone needs power converters for instrumentation. The reason for this is simple, instrumentation, or data displays, are now becoming the most important aspect of control systems for the average person. EVs, Kiosks, Charging Stations, every car, motorcycle, handheld device or electronic and analog system will need instrumentation to function properly. And many companies are seizing this opportunity to provide low power, and high power DC-DC converters to run instrumentation.

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With many companies redesigning their low power converters (and working diligently to reduce footprints, or increase input ranges while maintaining small footprints) it's no wonder that many analog power companies are releasing converters in series.

The same panels will house more items to display, while components running the systems must fit into tighter and tighter spaces. There is a heavy focus on industry, EVs, and healthcare applications. As the low power systems become more versatile, the wider input voltage ranges widen even further.

Converters that needed almost a two-foot square space for a 500Watt power supply, now only need 4in x 6in and a height of 1.5in as in the Green Watt Power DC-DC power converters. And the smallest versions of 1W and 2W redesign of converters are able to fit neatly into half the board space of previous low power systems. All the while maintaining pin-outs for ease of standardized use. In the end, the instrumentation panels will be an outlier of the touch screen systems most EVs and Handheld electronic instruments will carry as the standard, by the late 2020's early 2030s. Watch this space for more on these rapidly changing developments.

DIN Rail PC With Four 2.5 GbE LAN, Dual Display, PCIe x4 Slot

ICP the Germany-based PC maker has launched a compact PC based in the 11th Gen Intel processors for DIN Rail use. The DRPC-240-TGL comes with 8GB RAM by default although it can be expanded to 64GB through two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots.