element14 and Simon Foley of Vishay will hold a webinar entitled “5 Things to Know About Buck Regulators” on 4 November, 2020 5pm GMT.

Automation is driving the world into a completely new era of communication. As a result, the power ecosystem is now fundamentally being transformed into a workhorse, to deliver essential energy to those critical IT infrastructures. Vishay ICs, provide solutions to overcome key infrastructure power conversion challenges including:

Increasing global ICT power consumption, forecast to triple in the next decade

Increasing cooling costs for data centres

Power hungry CPU and SoC

Higher portability and less space in electronics devices

More stringent and tougher application environments and tougher application environments    

During the webinar attendees will have the chance to win one of four Vishay Synchronous Buck Regulator EV Boards by submitting a question.   

Attendees can get the most out of the webinar by viewing a video roadtest conducted by the element14 Present’s video host, the Bald Engineer, James Lewis. 

The Vishay SIC 461 Evaluation Board is a silicon carbide based DC to DC buck convertor which allows the user to evaluate the SiC461 (10 A), SiC462 (6 A), SiC463 (4 A), or the SiC464 (2 A) microBUCK regulators for their features and functionalities.

The board has multiple switcher versions that provide 10, 6, 4 and 2 amps of output.

Input voltage can range from 4.5 to 60 volts and the output is adjustable down to 0.8 volts. 

These regulators accommodate a variety of applications, including computing, consumer electronics, telecom, and industrial.    

The Vishay Synchronous Buck Regulator EV Board and other Vishay products are available from Farnell in EMEA at uk.farnell.com/vishay.