From traditional fuses to eFuses, understanding the advantages, limitations, and use cases of each technology helps engineers ...

Many applications today, including industrial machinery, power tools and other high current equipment, use limiting inrush current as a major design consideration to combat the problematic effects of ...

It’s Friday night and a frantic call from the operations vice president wakes the chief engineer in the middle of the night. “Our factory is down!” the VP cries out. Apparently, there was a heavy ...

Often, many different types of protection of the power transistor, motor or any part of the system are required in motor drive applications. Current protection of the inverter is one of the crucial ...

The ability to turn on loads in a controlled manner is important in applications where the power budget is limited. Hard switching a load can cause the input power rail to droop and result in a fault.