The Napkin Sketch Behind a Power-Management Workhorse
How a 1996 power metal strip resistor concept became a lasting lesson in current sensing, thermal design, sourcing, and power-system reliability.
How a 1996 power metal strip resistor concept became a lasting lesson in current sensing, thermal design, sourcing, and power-system reliability.
Thick-film current-sensing resistors may offer an economical alternative to metal shunts on carefully selected power rails.
High-frequency thin-film resistors highlight why impedance, layout, and parasitics must be evaluated together in communications infrastructure.
Thick-film current-sensing resistors can offer a practical, economical alternative to metal shunts in selected low- and medium-current applications.
AEC-qualified thick-film chip resistors that maintain full-rated power to 105°C widen the design envelope for automotive, aerospace, industrial, and dense power electronics.
A 10 ppm, 18 A PCB-mount isolated current transducer shows how precision sensing, passives, layout, thermal design, and calibration are converging in compact power electronics.
A 1,100 W half-brick PFC module shows how higher integration changes capacitor, magnetic, current-sense, EMI and thermal design.
Stackpole’s new 0.5 mΩ and 20 mΩ CSSU current sense resistors broaden design flexibility for compact high-current power systems while maintaining a 5 W rating in a 2512 footprint.
Silver cost pressure is reshaping the varistor market, giving suppliers with material-substitution capability a chance to capture transfer orders.
Overvoltage protection is becoming a core power-design decision as dense systems rely on TVS diodes and MOV varistors to survive harsher electrical stress.