Power

When specifying power supplies, today's customers invariably want four things - small size, reliability, ease of control and, of course, value for money.

CamSemi, the power management IC specialist, has obtained $4m in funding from Carbon Trust Investments, as part of $26 million raised in total for its C round funding

Edinburgh-based audio chip firm Wolfson is adding power controllers to its product range, aiming to get more business inside phones

Vibration energy harvesting device firm Perpetuum has completed a £5m funding round backed by Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF)

Cambridge-based power chip start-up CamSemi has revealed its first product, a controller for off-line power supplies between six and 14W. It does not use the firm’s flagship ‘PowerBrane’ MEMS transistor

Digital technology is being used to control and manage power supplies and there are significant differences between control and management in this scenario

Micrel has introduced a power controller designed for use in digital cable receivers, DTV/ HDTVs, digital DVR STBs, and digital satellite receivers based on the US CableCard standard

It is power supplies - across the board - that, arguably, suffer most from cost sensitivity.

Diboride Superconductors of Cambridge is to provide wire for a prototype fault current limiter (FCL) for Scottish Power.

Power Integrations has introduced an off-line switching architecture aimed at cutting power waste at all output levels