Companies in this industry include manufacturers of TVs, radios, DVD players, personal music players, home entertainment equipment, etc.
Articles discussing opportunities, technical requirements, and design challenges for power electronics engineers in the Consumer & Entertainment equipment industry:
Wireless Power Emerges As New Field for Power Supply and Electromagnetics Design
By David G. Morrison, Editor, How2Power.com, June 2012
The large number of companies now developing wireless power products suggests that this is an
area that may generate new career opportunities for power electronics (PE) engineers in the
years ahead. For PE engineers interested in this field, it may be encouraging to learn that the
power supply topologies, design techniques, and components being deployed in wireless power
applications are generally similar to those PE engineers have been working with in other
applications. However, there are some wireless-specific design challenges such as the design of
transmitting and receiving coils, which creates a fundamental requirement for electromagnetics
modeling and simulation. In this column, two developers of proprietary technologies—Wireless
Power & Communication AS and WiTricity Corp.— share their insights on the design challenges
encountered in their applications and the types of engineering skills that they and their
customers rely on to create wireless power solutions. Read the full article»
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