The design of a switching power supply has always been considered a blend of magic and art by every engineer that designs one for the first time. Fortunately, today the market offers different tools ...

Prior knowledge needed: ECEA 5700 Introduction to Power Electronics, ECEA 5701 Converter Circuits, ECEA 5702 Converter Control, ECEA 5703 Magnetics Design, ECEA 5705 Averaged Switch Modeling and ...

Ericsson POL regulators are implemented by using non-isolated synchronous buck topology shown in Figure 1. During normal operation of a buck power stage, QH and QL are alternatively switched on and ...

Here’s a step-by-step design of a resonant-coupled inductor employed in a PFC EMI filter that doesn’t impact power factor. Over the past 40 years many of my designs included Power Factor Correction ...

This article appeared in Machine Design and has been published here with permission. Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have devised a method of combining capacitors and ...