New Products

1. SynQor Announces Full Patient Contact 500W Medical Grade Power Supply
2. Eltek Valere Debuts "Green" Version Of DC Power System
3. Seiko NPC Announces PMIC With Automatic Luminance Controlling White LED Driver
4. POWERVAR Expands Uninterruptible Power Manager Family

Industry News

5. Advent Solar To Ship 250MW Of Solar Modules With European Partners
6. Nanosolar Announces $300M Additional Funding; Nearly Half Billion Total
7. IMEC & Plextronics Collaborate On Reproducible Organic Solar Cells

Features

8. Feature Article (Updated 08/08/2008)
   "Integrated Battery Charging and Power Delivery Implementations"
9. PowerLines (Updated 09/01/2008)
   "Switching to Digital "
10. Market Update (Updated 08/31/2008)
    "Underlying Trends Driving Dc-Dc Brick Market"

More Power to You

11. Power Event Preview
12. Power Poll
13. Knowledge is Power
14. Personal Power
15. Power Communities

New Products

1. SynQor Announces Full Patient Contact 500W Medical Grade Power Supply

SynQor announced its latest product designed specifically for medical applications. The AcuQor® AQ0500M series of off line power supplies packs 500W of useable power into just 3.5 x 5.25 x 1.63", which is said to be the world’s smallest cardiac care, medical grade ac-dc converter for this power level. The ACuQor series has an efficiency level of 91%. Single outputs of 48, 36, 24 or 12V are available to facilitate the use of distributed power architectures and battery backup, and to directly drive components such as fans, motors, pumps, lamps and actuators.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19432&source=1

2. Eltek Valere Debuts "Green" Version Of DC Power System

Eltek Valere announced the V- Series HE, a series of rectifiers that is said to offer more than 95% efficient power conversion. The V-Series HE debuts as Eltek Valere’s second product line to adopt high-efficiency technology.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19429&source=1

3. Seiko NPC Announces PMIC With Automatic Luminance Controlling White LED Driver

Seiko NPC Corp. announced its new SM8158B – a power management IC (PMIC) with charge pump type white LED driver and 2-system programmable LDO (Low Dropout Regulator). The white LED driver provides constant-current drive for 1 to7 backlight LEDs connected in parallel. The 7 channel LED driver pins can be grouped into 2 systems (7:0,6:1,5:2,4:3) to provide 2-system variable brightness lighting.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19430&source=1

4. POWERVAR Expands Uninterruptible Power Manager Family

POWERVAR, Inc. announced that it has expanded its family of uninterruptible power management (UPM) products with the addition of two new capacity models for North American use – a 2.2 and a 3kVA. The company claims that its UPM is designed to provide the most complete power protection against power outages, surges and noise associated with dirty power.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19431&source=1

Industry News

5. Advent Solar To Ship 250MW Of Solar Modules With European Partners

Advent Solar, Inc. announced that it has reached a key milestone in the company’s growth strategy. Enerpoint S.p.A., MHH Solartechnik GmbH and SunConnex B.V. have agreed to purchase and distribute Advent Solar® Ventura™ Technology, said to be the solar industry’s only comprehensive cell-to-module solar architecture. Under this agreement, Advent Solar and its European partners will deploy over 250MW of Ventura-based solutions in Europe through 2013.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19435&source=1

6. Nanosolar Announces $300M Additional Funding; Nearly Half Billion Total

Nanosolar Inc. announced that it has raised more than $300 million in its most recent round of financing, bringing the total amount of funding to just under half a billion dollars.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19433&source=1

7. IMEC & Plextronics Collaborate On Reproducible Organic Solar Cells

IMEC, an independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreement to collaborate on state-of-the-art materials and inks for organic solar cells. With this collaboration, IMEC aims to develop a reproducible process for high-efficiency organic solar cells using Plextronics’ Plexcore® branded materials and inks, which the company claims have demonstrated world-record efficiencies as high as 5.9%, according to recent testing at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado.
http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=19434&source=1

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Week in Review

8. Switch-Mode Power

   • Eltek Valere Debuts "Green" Version Of DC Power System
        

   • Murata Introduces AC-DC Front End Power Supplies For Distributed Power Architecture Systems
        

   • FDK Isolated DC-DC Converter Delivers 18A At 12V For IBA & DPA Applications
        

   • Linear Tech Micropower 50mA Linear Regulator Withstands 80V Input
        

   • Analog Devices Introduces Compact Buck-Boost Regulators With Fast Switching Frequency
        

Features

9. Feature Article (Updated 08/08/2008)
   "Integrated Battery Charging and Power Delivery Implementations"
   

   The popularity of the different portable consumer devices over the last decade has introduced new requirements in terms of usage time, form factor, environmental friendliness and functionality. Lithium-based rechargeable batteries have emerged as the power source of choice to address these requirements – they offer the highest energy density, no memory effect, better environmental attributes and a reduced self-discharge rate.
   http://www.powerpulse.net/techPaper.php?paperID=149

10. PowerLines (Updated 09/01/2008)
    by Darnell Group Senior Research Analyst Linnea Brush
    "Switching to Digital "

    Darnell sees digital just starting to enter its “growth phase,” with the lifecycle curve not even flattening in the next five years.
    http://www.powerpulse.net/powerLines.php?Id=265&source=1

11. Market Update (Updated 08/31/2008)
    by Darnell Group Inc. Senior Research Analyst Linnea Brush
    "Underlying Trends Driving Dc-Dc Brick Market"

    Although the intermediate bus architecture (IBA) is well-established, many new isolated converters are still being targeted at this market.
    http://www.powerpulse.net/marketUpdate.php

More Power to You

12. Power Event Preview
    "Power-Up for These Industry Events"
    http://www.powerpulse.net/resources/calendar.php

    September 02-05, 2008
    Electronic India

    September 14-18, 2008
    INTELEC - International Telecommunications Energy Conference

    September 15-17, 2008
    Darnell's Digital Power Forum ‘08

    September 18, 2008
    Portable Design Conference & Exhibition

    September 22-24, 2008
    First International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip

13. Power Poll
    "Tell Us What You Think!"

    What advances in power have contributed most to the development of today's electronics industry? See the "Milestones in Power" timeline and submit your suggestions of milestones that mattered.
    http://www.powerpulse.net/powerMilestones.php

14. Knowledge is Power
    "An Item a Day of Enduring Insignificance"

    On September 4, 1997, the very last Ford Thunderbird rolled off the assembly line in Lorain, Ohio. Originally conceived as Ford's answer to the Corvette, the Thunderbird enjoyed an illustrious place among American cars. It was promoted as a "personal" car, rather than a sports car, so it never had to compete against the imports that dominated the sports car market.

15. Personal Power
    "Make Headlines with Darnell News"

    Give your site added value by displaying the PowerPulse.Net Personal Headline Bar on your pages. You only need to add two lines of code in your html in order to display up-to-the- minute power electronics news headlines. The headline box is 145 pixels wide and on average, depending on story title length, 375 pixels high. If you would prefer to use targeted News Headline Bars, we have Batteries and Portable Power Sources news as well as Switch-Mode Power news.
    http://www.powerpulse.net/personalHeadlines.php

16. Power Communities
    "A Powerhouse of Industry Information"

    Darnell.Com has added an exciting new feature to its website! Our new power communities are designed to pull together the industry news, commentaries, technical papers and new products for a specific industry in one place. Even better, instead of merely taking in what we offer, you can contribute your own thoughts and views, asking questions and exchanging information with other professionals through the new discussion forums in each power community. Visit our eight new power communities online:

    • Automotive Power Electronics
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=6

    • Batteries and Portable Power Sources
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=5

    • Communications Power
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=2

    • Motion Control
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=7

    • Power Components
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=3

    • Power Quality Protection
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=4

    • Renewable Energy
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=8

    • Switch-Mode Power Conversion
      http://www.powerpulse.net/community.php?commID=1