EDN's Best of Power: Power-Control ICs and Modules

By Staff -- EDN, 5/15/2008

As with power supplies, readers' attention focused on highly efficient power regulators. In addition, regulators that take the work out of conditioning power for targeted portable systems—consumer, military, and automotive—are popular. In general, readers follow new products that continue the march of ICs that make power control and regulation simpler, smaller, more efficient, and less expensive.

• "Maxim Integrated Products MAX8901A and MAX8901B: Step-up dc/dc converters have 92% efficiency"
• "Enpirion EP53x2Q: Integrated buck converter targets low-power and portable applications"
• "International Rectifier IR33x: Current-sensing IPS targets automotive systems"
• "Linear Technology LTM4600HVMPV: Switch-mode regulator suits military applications"
• "DS2 Montgo: Powerline-communications chip set has a 100-Mbps maximum data rate"

Further EDN reading: "Creating the power subsystem in modern design"