Clean Energy and Cloud Infrastructure

Magnetic Current Sensing Drives Vehicle Electrification

January 25, 2024

Modern cars have become increasingly power hungry. Even the “least electrified” vehicles include advanced electronics for infotainment, safety, and engine control. Fully electric vehicles further add high-voltage power domains to charge and drive. Each of these systems shares the need for power ...

Solar Energy Systems – New Market Trends in Current Sensing

April 01, 2021

P0103 - As solar installations grow larger and more ambitious by the day, new trends in current sensing are emerging for this expanding energy market.

New 400 kHz Current Sensors Enable More Sustainable Designs in Switch-Mode Power Designs

July 01, 2020

Really Cool. Really Efficient. New 400 kHz current sensors enable more sustainable designs in switch-mode power designs.

Solving the Challenges of Increasing Power Density by Reducing Number of Power Rails

March 28, 2023

P0243 - This article overviews challenges associated with high-power-density solutions and the technologies that best enable the desired outcome.

Allegro's Coreless Current Sensor Solutions

The ACS3761X Hall-effect sensor IC solution family is a coreless and shield-free solution, reducing BOM and overall inverter size and weight.

Achieving Closed-Loop Accuracy in Open-Loop Current Sensors

Closed-loop current sensing technology is employed in many industrial and automotive applications for accurate current sensing. Allegro MicroSystems has developed magnetic-based current sensor IC solutions that achieve near closed-loop accuracy using an open-loop topology.

Clean Energy Overview

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Facilitating a Clean Energy Future with Current Sensing Solutions

October 03, 2023

Clean energy technologies, like solar, EV batteries, wind, and hydroelectric, offer a sustainable way to meet energy needs without releasing toxic greenhouse gases.

Improved Performance and Features of Allegro’s Next Generation, High Power Density CB Package Current Sensors

This application note will describe the use of the new high current ACS772 Hall-effect current sensor integrated circuit (IC) from Allegro MicroSystems and will give an overview of its features and improvements from previous Allegro high-current sensors.

Common Mode Field Rejection in Coreless Hall-Effect Current Sensor ICs

Allegro current sensor ICs use the Hall-effect to measure the magnetic field produced by an integrated, current-carrying loop, translating the magnetic field to a voltage which is proportional to the current flow.

Vertical Hall Technology Enables Effective Tamper Detection

A recent breakthrough in Hall-effect sensing has enabled the creation of omnidirectional magnetic sensor ICs that match all of the requirements for tamper detection.

Current Sensing For Renewable Energy

In grid-tied photovoltaic systems, designers must focus on minimizing cost per watt to deliver the best possible return on investment.

Improving Efficiency in Smart Grid Applications With Fully Integrated Current Sensing ICs

With increasing concerns about the global demand for energy and environmental awareness, power electronics applications are under pressure to improve efficiency.

Differential Current Sensing with the 1 MHz Bandwidth ACS733

AN296154 - This application note describes the use of the new highly isolated, high bandwidth ACS733 Hall-effect current sensor integrated circuit (IC) from Allegro MicroSystems and gives an overview of its features and advantages over a highspeed current transformer (CT) current sensing solution.