Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...

Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...

This resource provides clear explanations of how switching regulators work and how voltage boosting is achieved efficiently ...

A new type of device provides designers of automated installations for North America with performance, cost, and safety benefits. Industrial machinery and equipment system designs typically rely on ...

Optimization of power consumption is one of the biggest challenges IC designers face today. Although power optimization has always been critical for battery-operated designs, the continued growth of ...

Achieving sustainability occurs by reducing the amount of energy consumed during manufacturing and throughout the lifetime of a device. Semiconductors play a key role in sustainable energy by enabling ...

In this paper, the authors present a new transistor sizing methodology called Free Power Recovery (FPR) for low power circuit design. The objective of this methodology is to minimize the total power ...

These similar power-measurement ICs tackle the often necessary but energy-consuming task of continuous power measurement and ...

Racking in or out a power circuit breaker is simple, right? Although this task sounds pretty straightforward in theory, that’s not always the case. In fact, during years of field work related to ...

EMI design:All relevant devices must pass EMC standards, but it can be challenging to optimize devices for EMI performance. Flyback solutions typically require a common-mode (CM) inductor to improve ...