41st ANNUAL PRODUCT OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS

摘要

Advanced Linear Devices (ALD) offers a universal PCB designed to automatically balance leakage currents and manage over-voltage, enabling ultra-low-power usage in supercapacitors used in a series stack. The board uses ALD's SAB MOSFETs (SABMB16, SABMB8100XX, SABMB9100xx) to balance the leakage current in each individual supercapacitor cell from 0.1 F to 3,000 F. It is designed to allow system engineers to test, evaluate, prototype, or use for in-produc-tion products. Supercapacitor balancing is required by cell manufacturers when used in stacks of two or more. Balancing manages overvolt-age limits, a main cause of product failures.