Frenetic launched its magnetics design service in 2021. Using a simple online process and unique Core Optimizer tool to make the core selection process faster and more efficient, users input their electrical and environmental specifications, and receive an optimized transformer design in minutes, thanks to Frenetic’s custom algorithms which are based on decades of magnetics design experience. The company’s web-based platform allows users to compare millions of different magnetics possibilities within seconds, while maintaining the highest level of accuracy. BOMs, 3D models, and engineering drawings are automatically generated. Now, users can take that design and have samples and full production quantities made at Frenetic Factory.

Frenetic Factory comprises facilities around the world that are both owned by Frenetic Magnetics or a qualified third party. This is the same operational model as much of the rest of the electronic components industry. And Frenetic Factory is fully responsible for the technical support and quality of the components it supplies, no matter which facility they were produced in. Manufacturing quality and product standards adhered to include MIL-STD-461E, MIL-STD-981, ESCC 3201 and Qualified Parts, and AEC-Q200. Core types available include ferrite, powder, amorphous, electrical steel and nanocrystalline; shapes include round, Litz, foil, planar and Cu-stamped.

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Alpha & Omega Semiconductor

Electronics generate heat. It’s what they do. Alpha & Omega Semiconductor has developed a package that it calls MEGA IPM7 for its intelligent power modules. The SMD package contains an embedded IGBT for motor drives in appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners. What makes the package different is its surface contains metal, which helps to pull heat away from the embedded device.

Analog Devices

Analog Devices introduced the LT8418, a 100 V half-bridge GaN gate driver. Designed to minimize EMI issues, the LT8418’s split gate drivers let you adjust a GaN FET’s turn-on and turn-off slew rates. The device can source up to 4 A peak and sink up to 8 A.

Bourns

The manufacturer of power magnetics, circuit-protection devices, sensors, switches, and other devices focused on transformers chokes, gate drivers, and toroids.

Brightworks

Many of the power semiconductors seen at APEC have been designed into phone and laptop chargers from well-known manufacturers such as Anker, Belkin, and others, some of which will remain nameless. Brightworks manufactures chargers and power supplies that other companies private brand, using some of those power semiconductors. The photo shows a 20 W USB-C charger that the company let me take home. I’m tempted to crack open the case to see what’s inside.

Empower Semiconductor

The manufacturer of voltage regulators, silicon capacitors, and interposers exhibited an evaluation board for its EP7123 dual-output integrated voltage regulator. Each output supplies up to 6 A with a 3.3 V input. Other parts in the series include one, three, and four outputs.

Infineon

At APEC 2024, Infineon introduced the TDM22544D and TDM22545D high-density power modules designed for data center processors. The modules package a MOSFET with an inductor that’s surrounded by heat-dissipating metal.

Operating from the Infineon booth, AWL Electricity showed a rather unusual demonstration of wireless power transfer. In this video, Cédric Hamel-Bruneau uses a modified lamp with an LED bulb at one end and no power cord on the other. Instead, the base holds a receiver that receives power from a transmitter. The concept uses electric-fields to transfer power through capacitive coupling. That’s different than, say, a wireless charger that uses magnetic fields and inductive coupling.

Menlo Micro

You might think of Menlo Micro’s switching products for communications, 5G, and test & measurement but the company also makes power switches. The video shows a demonstration of the MM9200 power switch. Here, Menlo Micro shows a set of these switches running in a serial-parallel combination that the company says runs cooler than an identical configuration using SiC.

Microchip

Microchip exhibited the MAICMMC40X120 Aviation Power Core module that integrates an SiC MOSFET with drivers and a microcontroller. It can produce AC power with variable frequencies to drive motors for aerospace and defense applications.

Qorvo

The company introduced a series of SiC 1200 V half-bridge and full bridge power modules. The four modules in the UHBxxx12E1BC3N series have drain currents of 17 A, 25 A, 50 A, and 100 A with R_DS(ON) at 70 mΩ, 35 mΩ, 19 mΩ, and 9.4 mΩ, respectively.

Power Integrations

In the video, Andrew Smith explains how the company achieves multiple DC rails with a single chip. The InnoMux 2-EP is a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) flyback switcher that selects which of its loads needs energy.

TDK

TDK’s µPOL (point-of-load) DC-DC converters provide telemetry for parameters such as voltage, current, and temperature. The demonstration in the video shows a 12 A regulator sending telemetry to a computer. The converter’s output range is 0.6 V to 1.8 V.

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