What is digital electricity?
Can a continuous series of high-energy pulses delivered over low-voltage wiring provide significant power to a load?
Evaluation of measurement techniques for high speed GaN transistors
This article focuses on measurement techniques to accurately evaluate high performance GaN transistors and evaluates high bandwidth differential probes for use with non-ground-referenced waveforms.
Classic HP 35 calculator comes back to life
Modernizing the power source in an HP 35 – the first scientific pocket calculator.
Thermal study exposes PSU improvements
See how a thermal camera helps evaluate updates to a cheap PSU’s componentry.
Ćuk’s resonant buck slashes magnetics
Dr. Slobodan Ćuk proposes an interesting hybrid charge pump/resonant buck that virtually eliminates the magnetics.
Designing power architectures: Creative use of buck regulators
In this article, the buck regulator IC will be used to illustrate various application designs.
These batteries are designed to fail
When a handful of batteries show up dead on arrival, this engineer had to take a closer look.
Diversity of trends in wireless power charging at APEC 2018
Wireless power charging was a big point of discussion on the APEC 2018 exhibit floor. Here are a few unique wireless charging strategies.
Reverse voltage protection for battery chargers
Develop a reverse voltage protection circuit for battery charger based applications.
Finding the right power supply technology for your design
To make good development decisions, system designers must know the strengths and trade-offs of competing power technologies.