Increasing demands for improvements in power supply efficiency means that traditional rectification using standard, ultrafast and Schottky diodes is gradually being replaced by elaborate schemes using ...

Zetex has announced a synchronous rectifier controller for flyback converters. Combined with a discrete power Mosfet, the ZXGD3101T8 ‘zero point detector driver’ replaces Schottky and other diodes to ...

Now that the green revolution is firmly entrenched, power supply designers have successfully brought to market many innovative techniques for reducing power loss. These techniques usually come with ...

Fig. 1: A conventional flyback topology experiences significant switching losses. Mladen Ivankovic is a Sr. Staff Application Engineer at Infineon A classic flyback converter stores energy as a ...

Applications ranging from consumer electronics to high-power energy-conversion systems leverage the benefits of dc-dc power converters in their designs. Among these, flyback converters are popular for ...

Diodes has announced the APR348, a secondary-side, multi-mode synchronous rectification mosfet driver. The driver is designed for AC-DC rectification circuits in general consumer applications, ...

Here, Rich Miron, Applications Engineer at Digi-Key Electronics explores the operation of switch mode power supplies and explores make Vs. buy decision process for power supplies. Miron also ...