Using a microcontroller to manage the operation of a switching power supply allows designers to implement new programmable features previously unavailable from stand-alone controller chips. Many of ...

What are digital power supplies? The effects of EMI on switch-mode power supplies. Designing a filter to reduce EMI. How Silent Switcher technology changed the game in minimizing radiated emissions.

Integrated circuit (IC) sizes continue to grow as they meet the compute requirements of cutting-edge applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, and data centers. As design ...

Isolation, retention, and power switches are some of the important functionalities of power-aware designs that use some of the common low power techniques (e.g.) power shutoff, multi-voltage and ...

Open any switching power-supply datasheet or design handbook and the message is the same: follow these layout guidelines, OR ELSE. Even if the schematic has all the proper connections and the bill of ...

The traditional 12V automotive lead-acid battery architecture has reached its usable power limit, given the growing load-power requirements of advanced automotive systems, the conversion from ...