SynQor has released a new brochure featuring its most advanced DC/DC convertor product lines including the most recent Advanced TCA interface module and high power convertors. This full colour, 28-page brochure provides text, photographs, and charts thoroughly describing SynQor’s high efficiency line of convertors. The new brochure features numerous product photographs and detailed mechanical drawings as well as a comprehensive user-friendly product selector guide for each one of the product lines offered (single output isolated DC/DC convertors, dual output isolated DC/DC convertors, bus convertors, nonisolated DC/DC convertors, and ATCA interface modules).

Vicor is enlarging its distribution network with the addition of Craftec UK to handle its products in the UK. The expanded distribution network of Acal, UR and Craftec provides a complementary mix of served markets, skills and associated products, which Vicor believes will help widen its customer base and increase its market share in the region. Vicor’s comprehensive range includes modular, high density DC/DC convertors and accessory components, configurable power supplies and custom power systems.

Craftec, a subsidiary of the Swedish-based Craftec/Powerbox Group, specialises in power and power products.

Its experience and support network provide a good match to Vicor’s products, as does its Powerbox custom PSU operation.

UK designers will, therefore, be able to find a suitable solution for their power supply needs through a combination of Vicor’s products and Craftec’s services.

Tyco Electronics Power Systems has entered into a royalty-based technology licensing agreement with Astec Power that will allow Astec Power and its affiliates to use patented Tyco Power Systems technology in their current designs for their isolated convertor eighth-brick and sixteenth-brick families of power modules. This agreement, which currently extends for the life of the patents, will benefit customers by allowing them to receive Astec’s power modules supported by patented technology from Tyco Power Systems. This valuable technology (US Pat Re 36571 and a number of related patents) is designed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of self-synchronised rectifiers for application to clamped-mode power convertors.

Previously, efficiency had been limited because of the nature of switching boost convertors and the variability of the transformer reset voltages in the forward type convertors.

By introducing a hybrid rectifier with a MOSFET rectifying device, Tyco Power Systems enhanced the efficiency of the rectifier, thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the manufactured power convertors.

‘We are pleased that Tyco Power Systems’ technology will be used in Astec products’, stated Roger Stonecipher, Vice President, Tyco Electronics Power Systems.

‘We are continuously trying to strengthen our position in the marketplace with technology and innovations that will benefit our customers’.

‘This agreement allows us to maintain the outstanding level of product availability and support that our customers rely on’, added PAM Jackson, Vice President and General Manager of DC/DC Business for Astec Power.