With the fast development of the tablet PC, the increasing load demand requires the adapter to have high power density, high efficiency, and low profile. This application note presents a high ...

Inductors can be found in many of the devices you use every day, but if you’ve been working only with DC in your projects there’s a good chance you’ve never needed to know anything about them. Now’s ...

The choice between a flyback or single-ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) topology often ends with the designer choosing the most familiar one, but that’s not always the right option, say John ...

Multi-Output Flybacks can be the low cost topology of choice where multiple output voltages are needed from an efficient power supply. Advantages of the flyback converter include small BOM count, good ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Let's return to the question, “Why Have an Air Gap?” initially posed in the Power Design article in the December 2002 issue of Power Electronics ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. In last month's Power Design column, we examined the functional principles of continuous mode (or incomplete energy transfer mode) of a flyback ...