Over the last few years, the automotive system has been going through an evolutionary transformation to make the car smarter and more fun to drive. At the same time, there is a time-bound requirement ...

Efficiency is the name of the game in power-system design, driven by the need to better leverage available energy and deliver more power from a smaller package. Except in some specialized or extremely ...

IXYS Corporation’s IXI858 and IXI859 Gate Driver/Regulator ICs are designed to provide the needed analog functions required by microcontrollers to implement offline digital power supply control, such ...

ST’s L98GD8 multichannel gate driver offers flexible output configurations in 48-V automotive power systems. Its eight independent, configurable outputs can drive MOSFETs as individual power switches ...

Since the turn of the century, the UL 325 standard has undergone significant revisions aimed at protecting people from accidents involving automated gates; however, despite these important changes, ...