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

Today's preferred rechargeable battery chemistry for small, lightweight, portable applications is lithium-ion. When it comes to power management for mobile phones, portable media players or navigation ...

ICs with a temperature protection function, the smallest number of external components in the industry and the industry’s smallest class of packages improve safety and reduce circuit board size TOKYO- ...

Lithium batteries have, nearly single-handedly, ushered in the era of the electric car, as well as battery energy storage of grid power and plenty of other technological advances not possible with ...

The simplest protection method for battery packs is a fuse that opens if the system draws excessively high current. A more complex protection circuit is found in some battery packs. The ...

Using a MOSFET as an ideal diode can provide robust and reliable safety protection for the emerging generation of autonomous appliances, as Shane Timmons explains. The growing popularity of cordless ...

A reduction in the size of an essential battery protection circuit for the iPhone could mean that Apple has room to include bigger batteries in the 2020 "iPhone 12" series. Sources within the supply ...

2020 iPhones may have a custom battery protection module that is nearly 50 percent smaller and thinner than the battery protection circuit in previous iPhones, according to industry sources cited by ...

We'll need bigger batteries for 5G. Next year’s so-called iPhone 12 lineup could come with even bigger batteries thanks to brand-new circuitry. Apple has reportedly teamed up with a new supplier that ...