Gridspertise, a global player dedicated to supporting distribution system operators worldwide in accelerating the digital transformation of electricity grids, and STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider, announced that they have entered a new phase of their long-term collaboration on smart-meter technologies. The two companies’ collaboration started in the early 2000s with one of Gridspertise’s shareholders Enel.…

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a new bidirectional buck/boost converter with an ultra-low quiescent current (IQ) of 60 nA, which is one-third the IQ of competing boost converters. The TPS61094 buck/boost converter integrates a buck mode for supercapacitor charging while providing ultra-low IQ, enabling engineers to extend battery life by as much as 20 percent when compared…