Surface-mount technology (SMT) components are used with solder reflow processes to fully automate the assembly. While through-hole technology (THT) components offer a board-mounted solution, they are typically not designed for…
SCHURTER officially announces the launch of its newest addition to the SCHURTER Fuse portfolio: The fast-acting UHP High Current SMD Fuse, designed to safely interrupt high-energy overcurrent in battery systems.…
Switches are ubiquitous, so why do so few of us use the correct terminology? Even though their underlying technologies are more than 100 years old, electromechanical switches continue to permeate…
OKW’s BODY-CASE for wearable personal medical devices, alarm call, location detection, and dose metering. The first thing clinicians and patients see and touch in the case of a medical device…
System designers often have to choose between standard, custom, and modular power supplies. When designing a system that requires some form of power conversion, the power source (power supply or…
The X8’s hybrid combination of microprocessor and microcontroller offers developers unprecedented flexibility. The company that fired up the maker movement has strategically grown into a full-fledged industrial partner over the…
SCHURTER expands the FMAC NEO and FMAD NEO 3-phase filter families to meet IEC 60204-1. Downsized for smaller footprint, without any compromise to performance, the two new filter series are…
It is no longer sufficient to simulate analog and digital blocks separately in a “divide and conquer” approach. We are at a time when the computing performance benefits of Moore’s…
Thermal gradient of a cellphone using the Celsius Thermal Solver (Source: Cadence) By combining finite element analysis with computational fluid dynamics, designers can perform complete system analysis using a single…
These novel SMT solutions pre-empt thermal issues in a unique way Thermal management has always been an important part of design but is gaining prominence with the development of wide-band-gap…