Don’t let ESR waste power and cook capacitors
Equivalent series resistance not only degrades RF performance, but it wastes power and can cause the capacitor to exceed its…
Sensorless controlled inverter drive for BLDC motors
This article aims at contributing to the performance enhancement of brushless DC motor drive systems.
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…
Switcher regulates HV in novel way
This Design Idea regulates high voltage without using high-voltage switching components.
Improving automotive ECU design with a low-IQ buck converter
Review the challenges of designing an electronic control unit buck converter, from low quiescent current and low noise to high…
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.