In motor control applications up to 2.5 kW, International Rectifier's 600V insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) reduce power dissipation in inverters by up to 60 percent or allow up to 60 percent higher rms current. The reduced power dissipation can reduce heatsink size by 50 percent. Each of the four new products in the family is co-packaged with an ultrafast soft recovery diode. The IRGB4062DPbF has typical reverse recovery energy of 621 µJ. The combination of low collector-to-emitter saturation voltage (VCE(ON)) (1.65V typical) and total switching energy (ETS) (ETS) of the trench IGBT results in reduced power dissipation and higher power density. The lead-free and RoHS-compliant IGBTs target motion control applications with wide switching frequency range such as in air conditioner and refrigerator compressors, washing machines, industrial drives, and circulating pumps.
A next-generation guided ammunition system for intercepting enemy fire that Lockheed Martin is developing for the Army has hit its targets in an initial series of tests by the company.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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