A deep dive into the design and optimization of solid flat wire inductors for advanced power electronics. TTI has sponsored this post. (Image: Bourns.) Recently, due to emerging high frequency and ...

For decades, power-supply designers have set their inductor ripple current to somewhere between 20% and 40% of their power supply’s full rated output current. This is considered a good starting point ...

As Lenz’s Law states, an inductor in a circuit opposes the flow of current through it because the flow induces an electromotive force (emf) that opposes it. In order to keep the current flowing ...

Constrained by battery capacity, notebook manufacturers seek more efficient as well as lower-priced components for their designs. Active and passive devices used on VRMs (voltage regulator modules) ...

In part 1 of this article, the inefficiencies incurred by the MOSFET and the diode of the generic switch-mode power supply (SMPS) were examined. The conductive losses presented by the static ...