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Choosing the right flyback controller for your design
If every industry has one common goal, it’s the push to do more with less. How do you make something lighter, smaller, faster and stronger? Power is no exception.With the ever-increasing demand for...
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Use a low-quiescent-current switcher for high-voltage conversion
In battery-operated environments, it’s important to pay attention to quiescent current when designing your power system block diagram. Some applications, such as cordless handheld garden tools,...
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How to add overvoltage protection to a synchronous boost controller
Although a cycle-by-cycle current-limit function exists in most synchronous boost controllers, sometimes engineers will add output overvoltage protection (OVP) in case of emergency to protect discrete...
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How to achieve higher system robustness in DC drives, part 3: minimum input...
Have you ever been watching your favorite show and noticed a blur or partial screen freeze? I think it was caused by an incorrect timing of the refresh.For proper operation in a half-bridge power...
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Top three qualities to consider when designing a video doorbell power supply
By Natnael Weldegiorgis and Jim BroilesWith the increased use of smartphones and tablets, there is a lot of effort on integrating popular home technologies like the Google Nest thermostat and Amazon’s...
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How to eliminate interference in wireless access point equipment
Equipping broadband modems, routers and gateways in home and enterprise networking with wireless access point (AP) functionality is experiencing explosive growth. Figure 1 shows such a Wi-Fi® network....
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USB Type-C™ and USB Power Delivery – no assembly required
As USB Type-C™ and USB Power Delivery (PD) gain momentum across a broad set of products, more and more engineers are rolling up their sleeves and making plans to add USB Type-C to their newest designs....
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How to eliminate interference in wireless access point equipment
Equipping broadband modems, routers and gateways in home and enterprise networking with wireless access point (AP) functionality is experiencing explosive growth. Figure 1 shows such a Wi-Fi® network....
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Output topology options for a voltage supervisor
Having stumbled upon this blog post, I’m assuming that you know the importance of having a voltage supervisor in your electronic design and are wondering how to implement and design with these...
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How to Create a Programmable Output Inverting Buck-Boost Regulator
By Akshay Mehta and Frank De StasiThere are multiple applications, particularly in the test and measurement sector, where you need an external source or digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to program the...
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Delivering a smooth transition from AC to PoE power
As the number of interconnected devices in the electronics market continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to ensure interconnectivity between data-sensitive end equipment like wireless...
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How to speed SSD program time with a boost converter
Solid-state drive (SSD) storage is becoming more popular in PC, data-center and telecom applications, offering the benefits of faster speeds and a more compact size compared to Hard Disk Drive (HDDs)....
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20 million reasons to use GaN
It was a cold and snowy day in Toronto.We were brainstorming in the basement of the local university’s advanced power electronics research lab. Ironically, the conversation was focused on heat – not...
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How to add hysteresis to a DC/DC converter
Is enable hysteresis not included in the DC/DC converter you are designing with? Or is the built-in enable hysteresis too small?Modern DC/DC converters use an enable pin to control the design...
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QFN soldering tips and tricks
If you’re looking to power a space-constrained, high-power-density, thermally critical application, high-efficiency converters in tiny quad flat no-lead (QFN) packages offer great performance value....
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Using an RGBW LED driver to elevate LED human-machine interface designs
Products are becoming very intelligent and connected with each other. Devices such as speakers, TVs, refrigerators, set-top boxes and smoke detectors are no longer objects that just sit there – users...
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How to use a voltage reference as a voltage regulator
A version of this post was also published on Electronic Design.Have you ever needed to bias a low-current load and simply didn’t want to add another voltage regulator? Or been in a situation where you...
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Improving data-center efficiency with eFuses
According to Forbes, global data centers used approximately 416TW (4.16 × 1014W) of electricity in 2017, with U.S. data centers contributing about 90 billion kilowatt hours to that number. With...
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Gallium nitride: supporting applications from watts to kilowatts
Two years ago, TI announced its first 600-V gallium nitride (GaN) power device, which paved the way for engineers not only in power density and efficiency capability but also ease of design, with an...
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Big things for power come in small packages
Semiconductor packaging includes much more than just the material encapsulating the chip. While containing critical connections to the chip itself and to the circuit board, packaging technologies also...
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