Single-IC supercapacitor-based power supply backup solution

Feature articles | September 5, 2013

Supercapacitors are used in an increasing number of applications that require a ready source of backup energy that can be called on to provide short-term power when regular input power is lost.

By eeNews Europe

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In these applications, supercapacitors have a number of advantages over traditional energy storage devices such as batteries, including low maintenance requirements, a virtually unlimited cycle life, and low effective series resistance. The LTC3226 simplifies the design of supercapacitor-powered backup application with a single-IC solution that charges the supercapacitor when input power is available, and then delivers energy from the supercapacitor to the load when nominal input power fails.

Read the full article on page 44 of our September digital edition.

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