The current-mode or peak-current-regulating switching converter is a familiar, almost dominant, power supply circuit consisting of few parts and is usually designed with “cookbook” procedures from PWM ...

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

A load switch is an electronic switch. It works like a relay to power supply rails in systems, but it has no moving parts. Load switches are increasingly found in today’s portable electronic devices, ...

Working on an embedded project? An 8-bit microcontroller with a pulsewidthmodulation (PWM) peripheral can provide a low-cost and easy solution to adding natural voice to your next embedded endeavor.

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

I was raised in a household where turning off a light switch when one left a room was second nature. Being yelled at helped, having my parents take the light bulbs from my room and make me buy them ...

Forget hacking an easy button, grab a couple of those outdated CD-Rs and build your own switch for that next project. This was developed with handicapped accessibility in mind; assembled easily with ...

For owners and developers of power plants, the decision between simple or combined cycle can be a tough one. As their name implies, simple-cycle plants are less complex, making them faster and cheaper ...