Beyond the Datasheet: How Real Power Designs Get Built When Requirements Don't Fit the Parts

Every power electronics engineer knows the moment: the spec lands, the shortlist of devices looks sensible, the simulation behaves — and then the bench, the thermal chamber or the EMC lab tells a different story.

As electrification, Edge AI and denser, always-on systems push power conversion harder than ever, the gap between what datasheets promise and what real designs demand is widening.

In this session, Rawad Kuwidir, Associate Director of Engineering for Product Engineering Services (PES) at the Swindon Technical Centre of eInfochips (an Arrow Company), draws on recent bespoke engineering projects across power applications to explore what actually happens when requirements don't fit the available parts.

Through concrete case studies, the talk will examine where new technologies genuinely earn their place — and where they don't; how multi-voltage and emerging architectures are being deployed under real constraints; and the thermal, EMC and control-loop surprises that only surface once silicon meets copper. Rawad will challenge several widely held assumptions about technology adoption, power density, and "drop-in" topology upgrades, and share the design techniques his team has used to deliver against complex, unfamiliar and sometimes contradictory requirements. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for navigating the space between datasheet and deliverable — knowing when to trust the part, when to push it, and when to redesign the system around what the part can actually do.