Six countermeasures to limit startup surge current of SMPS
The inrush current of the switching power supply refers to the peak current flowing into the power supply equipment at the instant the power is turned on as shown in …
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MOSFET Output Capacitance Coss and the Switching Power Loss
Power MOSFETs are widely used in switching high voltage and/or high current loads in industrial, household, telecommunication, and automotive applications. The power loss is a primary concern facing component selection …
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STMicroelectronics Self-Protected Smart Power Switches for Functional Safety Applications
More and more system designers have been aware of functional safety that relies on the comprehensive diagnosis and automatic protection to handle likely system failures caused by errors, hardware defects …
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Trench Gate MOSFET RDS(on) and SOA Characteristics
One of the most important characteristics of MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect-Transistor) is the resistance between its drain and source when it’s turned on. This characteristic is normally written as RDS(on). When MOSFET …
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Vishay Siliconix PowerPAIR Co-Packaged Dual MOSFETs and Applications
One of the recent trends in electronic design is low power and high density of components on PCBs. As more and more low power MCUs appear in the market to …
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Panasonic PhotoMOS Solid-State Relays
In many applications, Solid-State Relays (SSRs) are replacing Electromechanical Relays (EMR) due to their unparalleled features, such as long life, low noise, and high reliability, etc. When design engineers are …
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Analog Devices LTM46xx µModule POL Regulators for Variety of Power Supply Needs
September 11, 2018 Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, announced to stock the Power by Linear …
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LM1117 LDO Linear Voltage Regulator Design Guide
Linear regulator has been widely used by a variety of applications for long time. Before switching mode power supply (SMPS) became popular after 1960s, linear regulator was the basis for …
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International Conference on Power Electronics (ICPE 2019) – ECCE Asia
When: May 27-31, 2019 Where: BEXCO, BUSAN, Korea Conference Overview After the 1st meeting of ICPE was held in 1989, ICPE has been grown to one of the most important …
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13th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 2019)
When: July 9 – 12, 2019 Where: Météo-France, Centre International de Conférences, Toulouse, France The 13th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 2019) will be held …
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