Power supply design has traditionally placed a high priority on energy efficiency. The system and the end user will pay more if the power supply is inefficient and has non-negligible power losses. Let ...

Bill Traue, CSRE, 8-VSB, AMD is principal of Bill Traue Technical Services. He acknowledges that when it comes to fixing dead switched-mode power supplies, the small wall-wart or line-lump type aren’t ...

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces the release of three new switch mode power supplies. The C, HWB and SWF series have been designed with a user-configurability feature to prevent customers from ...

GaN switches promise higher efficiency and higher power density in SMPS. This article discusses the readiness of this technology and its challenges, and provides an outlook on being a replacement for ...

Toshiba Launches 100V N-Channel Power MOSFET with Its Latest Generation Process Technology[1] to Improve Efficiency in Switched-Mode Power Supplies for Industrial Equipment Toshiba Electronic Devices ...

The power supply is often the first component to fail in broadcast equipment, whether due to line surges, overheating or component aging. A client of Frank Hertel had a console with an internal switch ...

Perhaps the simplest way to regulate a DC voltage is using a voltage divider and/or an active device like a Zener diode. Besides simplicity, they have the additional advantage of not being ...

There’s no shortage of cheap & cheerful power supplies which you can obtain from a range of online retailers, but with no listed certification worth anything on them calling them ‘dodgy’ is more of a ...

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces the release of three new switch mode power supplies. Three switch mode power supplies from Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, the C, HWB and SWF series, have been designed ...