TDK Corp. has introduced a new tool for calculating and selecting EPCOS and TDK film capacitors for PCB mounting. The new CLARA (capacitor life and rating application) tool offers parametric search ...

Engineers designing power electronics find that capacitors are needed for several functions, from energy storage to filters and decoupling. Different capacitor types are available, that at first sight ...

The tool covers all the company's high-voltage capacitors (>150 V DC) with screw, snap-in and solder pin connections. TDK released the fully-revised version 4.0 of their Online AlCap Useful Life ...

Because of their high ESL compared to ceramic, tantalum capacitors are not the optimum choice for high frequency decoupling. Paralleling tantalum capacitors for bulk capacitance and ceramic for high ...