Today's engineer is faced with several options when selecting capacitors for use in high reliability switch-mode power supply (SMPS) applications. Each type has advantages and disadvantages that are ...

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 ...

Knowing the frequency response of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with a switched-capacitor front end is an important first step in understanding how to design an interface to these types of ...

What causes EMI in switched-mode power supplies, and how the active EMI filter can help. What is switching noise jitter? Adopting visible light communication to tackle EMI. Why AEFs are a better ...

This is the first of a series of regular columns with tips and tricks for using SPICE to aid in the design of switchmode power supplies. When the University of California at Berkeley released the ...

Here's how to reduce the effect of capacitor switching on your power system Last month's article discussed exactly what happens when electric utilities switch shunt capacitors: power system components ...

For as versatile and inexpensive as switch-mode power supplies are at all kinds of different tasks, they’re not always the ideal choice for every DC-DC circuit. Although they can do almost any job in ...

Simplify capacitor switching while increasing system reliability with the new easy-to-use Cooper Power Systems Edison capacitor switch. Using a direct drive, permanent magnet solenoid and dual coil ...

Scientists in India have developed a 500 W seven-level inverter prototype based on switched capacitors. The device is reportedly able to achieve a high efficiency despite switching, conduction, and ...