This video/article is part of Dostal's Designs series in Ideas for Design and the TechXchange: Power Supply Design. You can also post a question. Members can download ...

A follow-up to the article “Design a PFC Resonant Coupled Inductor That Doesn’t Distort Power Factor” (July 2015) described the design of the resonant inductor. This article describes how ...

The demand for power- and cost-efficient, fully integrated chip solutions is unyielding in today’s world of mobile, battery-operated electronics, and power-conditioning circuits are slowly and ...

As the form factor of wireless handsets, PDAs, and other portable electronics continues to shrink while their complexity level continues to grow, design engineers face an increasing number of problems ...

Step-down (buck) voltage regulators have long been the preferred DC-DC conversion electronic workhorse thanks to their inherently high efficiency. Only in buck mode the current is directed to the ...

Many applications using miniature brushed DC motors require motors to operate at more than one load point or through specific load cycles. Running a motor at usable load points requires a variable, ...

We often use linear regulators in our designs. They are cheap and simple – you put the regulator chip itself on the board, add two capacitors, and get a voltage. Linear regulators are imperfect, of ...