e-peas Introduces PMICs for Energy Harvesting and 5-V Charging

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e-peas has introduced three pin-compatible power management ICs (PMICs) — the AEM11920, AEM11921, and SPM10140 — letting OEMs develop energy-harvesting and conventional 5 V-charging product variants using the same PCB layout. The AEM11920 and AEM11921 are ambient energy management PMICs integrating a boost converter, buck output, and 5 V charger; they support harvesting from input voltages between 0.40 V and 2.24 V and can cold-start from as little as 2.4 µW, and the AEM11921 also incorporates e-peas' Average Power Monitoring (APM) functionality. The SPM10140, the first device in the company's new Smart Power Manager (SPM) family, is designed specifically for 5 V charging, uses a CC/CV method to deliver 50-400 mA to the battery, has an integrated buck converter that can supply up to 50 mA to the application circuit, and also includes APM. All three devices are housed in 3 × 3 mm QFN20 packages, offer buck-converter efficiency of up to 96%, are configurable through GPIO or I²C interfaces, and support Li-ion, lithium-ion capacitors, LiPo, LiFePO4 and NiMH energy storage. Samples and evaluation boards are scheduled to become available in December 2026, following the products' public debut at electronica 2026 in Munich, November 10–13.

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Source: Power Electronics News · 11/13/2026 · View original source