By Greentech Lead America: Texas Instruments (TI)
has launched TPS54061, a 200-mA, 60-V SWIFT high-density, synchronous step-down
regulator, with 90-percent high efficiency and low noise performance.
The TPS54061, sized only 125 mm2, integrates both high
side and low side power MOSFETs, and improves efficiency in industrial
automation and 4-mA to 20-mA sensor control applications, as well as smart
meter, Power over Ethernet, computing and consumer designs.
The TPS54061 converter manages input voltages from 4.7 V
to 60 V, and can withstand high-voltage transients up to 62 V while saving
energy even under light load conditions.
The converter supports various TI processors, including
Stellaris ARM Cortex-M MCUs, C5000 DSPs and ultra-low power MSP430 16-bit MCUs.
The TPS54061 converter offers low-power operation, it
operates at 90-uA current with a shutdown current of only 1.4 uA.
The converter features synchronized switching frequency
up to 1.1-MHz and small SON package with integrated diode, high and low-side
FETs result in a 20 mm2 board space savings compared to competitive products.
Texas
Instruments launches two new solar kits
Recently, Texas Instruments introduced two new solar
kits based on TI’s C2000 32-bit Piccolo and Concerto microcontrollers
(MCUs). C2000 high-voltage Solar Developer’s Kit and C2000 low-voltage
Solar Explorer Kit bring advanced peripherals, application-targeted
development hardware, schematics and comprehensive software libraries of
algorithms to the renewable energy market.
These new solar kits will allow designers to easily
create solar inverter designs while evaluating various solar algorithms and
topologies.