EDN's Best of Power: Products

Power systems include a wide-ranging group of products. Based on reader interest, EDN's "Best of Power" breaks these products into six categories, including batteries and charging ICs, switching semiconductors, control ICs and modules, LED drivers, components, and supplies. Take a look at the top traffic-getters in each category, and check out the supporting editorial features that cover the product category and learn more about what's driving these design components and tools.

As designers wrestle with the overcharging hazards of lithium-ion batteries as well as the batteries' finite charge/recharge cycle life, supercapacitors—with their virtually unlimited cycle lifetime, and nonexplosive chemistry—are gaining interest in the design community. This supercapacitor is for low-power consumer applications.

For more information on supercapacitors, read "Hybrids mark the end of the stinky city bus" and the Power Source blog.

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