The buck converter has emerged as a critical element in modern power electronics, offering highly efficient voltage step‐down conversion for a wide array of applications. Recent advances have focused ...

For those living before the invention of the transistor, the modern world must appear almost magical. Computers are everywhere now and are much more reliable, but there are other less obvious changes ...

Buck converters, a pivotal class of DC–DC converters, are widely implemented in modern power electronics to achieve efficient voltage step-down conversion. Recent advancements focus on enhancing ...

Synchronous buck converters, as opposed to conventional buck converters, can achieve high efficiency in today's low-voltage, high-current applications because they replace the catch diode of buck ...

Negative voltage sources are widely used in various applications such as computing systems, liquid-crystal display (LCD) source drivers and audio amplifiers Zach Zhang, Staff Applications Engineer, ...

Two S0-8-sized power MOSFETs introduced by Siliconix Inc. combine the low Qgd values enabled by the company's WFET process technology with the low Rds(on) According to the vendor, these on-resistance ...

Another lifetime ago, and as a young engineer, I had to design a power conversion system. The input power came as raw electrical energy from a jet engine during flight. The output power was input to ...

Many of today's MP3 players, multimedia players, digital video recorders, and other portable electronic devices have found the micro hard disk drive to be the optimum device for memory storage ...

Designing a circuit is a lot easier on paper, where components have well-defined values, or lacking that, at least well-defined tolerances. Unfortunately, even keeping percentage tolerances in mind ...

DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today introduced a new family of low-noise DC/DC switching regulators with integrated ferrite-bead compensation. The TPS62912 ...

Dialog has brought out a family of high current, auto grade, step down, DC-DC buck converters. The DA914X-A devices deliver current levels, up to 40 amps – a better alternative to power solutions that ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Diodes Incorporated (DIOD) today introduces four new automotive-compliant* asynchronous buck converters for 48V low-voltage rail point-of-load (PoL) applications. The ...