Wired

How To Move Big Electrons With an Arduino

Last week I explained how to use a motion sensor to trigger an event with an Arduino. The event we triggered was a simple blinking of an LED. You can do a lot with a bunch of LEDs if you use your ...
Electronics Weekly

What I didn’t know about npn transistors – mosfet driving

The holiday gave me a chance to play with bipolar transistor mosfet drivers again. And things did not go quite as planned. I had been using the circuit on the right quite happily from a signal ...
Electronics Weekly

Galvanically isolated gate driver for GaN transistors

STMicroelectronics has created its first galvanically isolated gate driver for GaN transistors. Called STGAP2GS the wide body SO-8W packaged single-channel driver can work with rails up to 1.2kV. The ...
Business Wire

Panasonic to Start Mass Production of High-speed Gate Driver Dedicated to GaN Power Transistor X-GaN (TM)

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will start mass production of a high-speed gate driver (AN34092B) optimized for driving its GaN power transistor X-GaN ...
EDN

Isolated FET pulse driver increases power rate and duty cycle

In power converters, pulse-drive circuits transmit the pulses a controller generates to the power transistor. Driver circuits must both transmit the controller's switching on/off signals with galvanic ...
Electronic Design

Unique Driver Architecture Enhances GaN-Based Isolated Power-Supply Designs

GaN (gallium nitride) E-HEMTs (High Electron Mobility Transistors) have altered the dynamics of power electronics in consumer electronics, datacenters, industrial motors, appliances, and ...