The regulation of power-based products and components is critical for design development and user safety. For decades, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has dictated how to design ...
Power Integrations successfully meet the IEC 62368 standard on its CAPZero™ family of innovative, two-terminal, automatic X-capacitor discharge ICs. The IEC 62368 is the new over-arching safety ...
IEC 62368-1 is the new hazard-based product safety standard coming into effect this December. What does this mean for design engineers? Neil Tyler reports IEC 62368-1 comes into force worldwide from ...
The demands of today’s consumers know no bounds when it comes to technology. Designers are increasingly challenged to create products that are not only innovative, efficient, and eye-catching, but ...
Melexis has qualified a pair of current sensors to UL/IEC 62368-1 for use where ‘reinforced isolation’ is mandated. “Until now, MLX91220 and MLX91221 had only been qualified as a basic, single barrier ...
December 2020 is the Date of Withdrawal (DoW) of the standards to supersede IEC 60065 and IEC 60950-1. The new standard is IEC 62368, which will replace 60065 (Audio/Video) and 60950 (IT) for external ...
The IEC published the second edition of IEC 62368-1 in 2014 and it has now been accepted as a mandatory requirement for CE marking for the Low Voltage Directive. Since Europe’s publication on ...
Bourns has introduced a series of gas discharge tubes for protecting equipment against high-voltage surges. The bidirectional GDT28H series has devices with breakdown voltages from 1 to 3.3kVdc, and ...