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SF Bay Area Chapter of IEEE PELS

@SFBAC_PELS

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE SFBAC-PELS) is interested in the development of power electronics technology.

 San Francisco Bay Area
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Joined July 2017
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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #BatteryFriday - Everyone presumes that #batteries can get significantly better in a few years. But will they? ⁦⁦@eetimes⁩ eetimes.com/what-if-battery-…
Batteries: Is Their Progress Approaching an End? - EE Times

Batteries: Is Their Progress Approaching an End? - EE Times

Are we at a point with chemical batteries where achieving further advances is too incremental, difficult and costly?

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #MondayRead - What made the #I2C bus such an overwhelmingly popular embedded #connectivity #technology for nearly four decades? And how is the #I3C bus carrying its legacy forward @ElectronicDesgn⁩ has answers electronicdesign.com/technol…
What's the Difference Between the I2C and I3C Bus?

What's the Difference Between the I2C and I3C Bus?

What made the I2C bus such an overwhelmingly popular embedded connectivity technology for nearly four decades? And how is the I3C bus carrying its legacy forward?

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #ThursdayRead - What does ⁦@RenesasGlobal⁩ acquisition of #PCB toolmaker ⁦⁦@altium⁩ mean? - ⁦@EDNcom⁩ has answers edn.com/what-does-renesas-ac…
What does Renesas’ acquisition of PCB toolmaker Altium mean? - EDN

What does Renesas’ acquisition of PCB toolmaker Altium mean? - EDN

Altium’s acquisition aims to facilitate system-level design with cloud-based PCB tools for Renesas-supplied chips and evaluation boards.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - Five Things to Know about China and EVs industryweek.com/the-economy…
Five Things to Know about China and EVs

Five Things to Know about China and EVs

'How do you cut the price of EVs in half? China's already done it.'

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #BatteryFriday - ⁦@ToyotaMotorCorp⁩ is developing four next-generation #battery varieties utilizing liquid- and solid-electrolyte #technologies to support their #EV roadmap ⁦@ElectronicDesgn⁩ electronicdesign.com/markets…
Four New Battery Varieties Highlight Toyota’s BEV Roadmap

Four New Battery Varieties Highlight Toyota’s BEV Roadmap

Toyota recently announced a new battery-electric-vehicle factory that will begin production of models in 2026. Development of next-generation batteries, consisting of liquid- ...

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #ThursdayRead - Exceptional electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties may enable #Aluminum #Nitride #AlN to become one of the best ultra wide #bandgap #semiconductors in the #power #electronics industry power-and-beyond.com:443/alu…

Aluminium Nitride: The semiconductor of the future?

Post the 160-year-old discovery, Aluminium Nitride has been one of the favorite compounds for researchers to study. Denoted by AlN, the compound has been recently launched as a semiconductor wafer by...

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - While #energy #harvesting is an area of great interest, potential and promise, it seems that it is often “oversold” with respect to what it can provide says ⁦@eetimes⁩ eetimes.com/free-power-a-nev…
Energy Harvesting: Not the ‘Free’ Power You’d Think - EE Times

Energy Harvesting: Not the ‘Free’ Power You’d Think - EE Times

Energy harvesting implies a nearly free lunch, but the laws of physics and real-world considerations often diminish that hope.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #BatteryFriday - #Graphene is set to disrupt the #EV #battery market energymonitor.ai/tech/energy… via @EnergyMonitorAI
Graphene batteries set to disrupt the EV market by mid-2030s

Graphene batteries set to disrupt the EV market by mid-2030s

Graphene looks set to disrupt the EV batteries market by the mid-2030s, according to a new AI forecasting platform using patent data.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #TuesdayRead - The Band Gap Showdown: GaN or SiC - Which Will Prevail? electropages.com/blog/2024/0…

The Band Gap Showdown: GaN or SiC - Which Will Prevail?

Delving into the worldwide competition in semiconductor technology, GaN and SiC are vying for dominance in bandgap efficiency and performance.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #MondayRead - The #measurement of the output #ripple in switching #power supplies is a crucial and delicate operation. ⁦@PwrElectronics⁩ discusses various measurement methods and approaches powerelectronicsnews.com/pow…
Power Supply Design Notes: How to Measure Ripple - Power Electronics News

Power Supply Design Notes: How to Measure Ripple - Power Electronics News

The performance of a switching converter can significantly decrease if the output signal is affected by the ripple. Its presence is quite visible in a

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #Battery Friday - Researchers at ⁦@illinoistech⁩ and @argonne⁩ developed a lithium-air #battery that could #power an #EV for as much as 1,000 miles on a single #charge electronicdesign.com/markets…

Lithium-Air Could Replace Li-ion Batteries to Significantly Boost EV Range

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology and U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory developed a lithium-air battery that could power an EV for as much...

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - Application of #machine #learning #ML in #power #management systems ⁦@EDNcom⁩ edn.com/application-of-machi…
Application of machine learning in power management systems - EDN

Application of machine learning in power management systems - EDN

Machine learning (ML) can be applied at the ‘edge’ where data processing functions are tightly targeted and power consumption must be low.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #TuesdayRead - #Voltage drop at advanced nodes is a deadly serious problem that has become unmanageable with the methodologies used by most #chip designers today says ⁦@SemiEngineering⁩ semiengineering.com/is-your-…

Is Your Voltage Drop Flow Obsolete?

Rethinking dynamic voltage drop from the ground up.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #BatteryFriday ⁦@EETimes_EU⁩ is Unveiling Trends and Insights in Solid-State Battery Technology eetimes.eu/unveiling-trends-…

Unveiling Trends and Insights in Solid-State Battery Technology

With advantages like better safety and longer cycle life, solid-state batteries are considered the “holy grail” of battery technologies.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - A key part of our understanding of classical #electrodynamics , was first theorized in the 1820s by André-Marie #Ampère , a French #physicist and #mathematician ⁦@IEEESpectrum⁩ spectrum.ieee.org/the-pionee…
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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #TuesdayRead - This ⁦@EDNcom⁩ article focuses on how to achieve #efficient #power delivery #network (PDN) design edn.com/optimizing-capacitan…

Optimizing capacitance in power delivery network (PDN) for 5G - EDN

Here is how to achieve efficient PDN design while reducing parasitic impedance caused by current path in decoupling capacitors.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - A novel design can add a "third switching state" to an #EV #traction #inverter , creating an efficient way to provide heat for passengers and batteries ⁦@ElectronicDesgn⁩ electronicdesign.com/markets…
The Heat is On to Reduce Electric-Vehicle Cost

The Heat is On to Reduce Electric-Vehicle Cost

A novel design that adds a "third switching state" to an EV's traction inverter offers an efficient way to provide heat for passengers and batteries while reducing BOM costs by...

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #BatteryFriday - ⁦@ionblox_ announced the launch of fast-charging lithium-silicon batteries for #EVs . They leverage silicon's energy-storage capacity to reduce charging times while increasing range electronicdesign.com/markets…

Lithium-Silicon Cells Promise Ultra-Fast Charging and Longer Range

Ionblox said its new lithium-silicon batteries for EVs enable charging of 60% of capacity in just five minutes and 80% in 10 minutes.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS #WednesdayRead - The International Energy Agency ⁦@IEA⁩ has just released its World #Energy Outlook 2023, shedding light on the dramatic transformation of the global energy landscape in the coming decade iea.org/reports/world-energy…
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#SanFrancisco #BayArea Chapter of @IEEEPELS ⁦#WednesdayRead - #Scientists have discovered “a missing #law of #nature ,” stating that complex #natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity @EurekAlert⁩ eurekalert.org/news-releases…

Leading scientists, philosophers identify nature’s missing evolutionary law

A paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s...

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