Beside the common advantages of a flyback converter, it has inherently parasitic components, which typically produce ringing waveforms with considerably high voltage spikes. This ringing can also influence the EMI emissions adversely. Therefore, it is an important task to adequate suppress and damp the ringing effect....
Published: Jul 01, 2021
Low-power electrical transients generated within a facility are the primary cause of failure to AC/DC power supplies. These transients reduce the life of power supplies and create unplanned downtime.
This document will explain why these transients cause failure and outline how placing high-power transient voltage...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
HPC (High Performance Computing) processors and memory loads continue to increase power demands at lower voltages while performance density and total cost of ownership challenges increase.
Efficient HV (high voltage) AC or DC distribution and power conversion to the loads are essential to maximize datacenter...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
An Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is a common analog building block and almost always is needed when interfacing digital logic, like that in an FPGA or CPLD, to the “real world” of analog sensors.
This white paper will explain the implementation of both a low frequency (DC to 1K Hz) and higher...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The BMI160 is a small, low-power, low-noise 16 bit Inertial Measurement Unit designed for use in mobile applications such as augmented reality or indoor navigation which require highly accurate, real-time sensor data. In full operation mode, with both the accelerometer and gyroscope enabled, the current consumption is...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Type-C interfaces bring dramatic benefits to consumers. However, in order to realize this potential designers must implement Type-C's Power Delivery (PD) protocol, detect cable orientation and switch high speed signals, as needed and, if desired, provide support for Vendor Defined Messaging (VDM).
This whitepaper...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
The universal serial bus (USB) has become a dominant interface to fulfill the ever increasing needs for rapid data transfer between end devices such as PC to portable devices, infotainment systems, storage, GPS, etc because of its ability to plug and play. USB has effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces, such...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Power has always been a design consideration. Traditionally, though, a lower priority has been assigned to power than to most other variables (speed/performance, cost, time-to-market, risk, etc.). In today’s marketplace, however, power has become a very important component in the designer’s decision making...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Power converter and inverter designs for higher power levels are usually based on hard switching half bridge configurations. In such setups, users must pay particular attention to proper switching operations to prevent shoot-through events.
Setting up complex real-time trigger conditions using the R&S®RTE...
Published: Oct 14, 2020
In many switching power converters, rectifier diodes are used to obtain the DC output voltage. The conduction loss of a diode rectifier contributes significantly to the overall power loss, especially for low-voltage, high-current converter applications. The conduction loss of a rectifying diode is given by the product...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Advances in semiconductor technologies from efficient power semiconductors to advanced sensor systems, has lead to the development of intelligent and safe robots. The next evolution of robotics will lead us into era with more autonomous robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
This document exposes ideas on how to...
Published: Jul 16, 2018
The large variety of motor technologies and corresponding control schemes available today to the design engineer and the dramatic pressure to reduce development time in industrial projects have created the need for performant design tools which allow to realise, already at a level of preliminary simulation, the complete...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
This White Paper describes how the new VIA PFM, a power component that performs the front-end AC-DC conversion required in many systems, allows the application of Vicor’s Power Component Design Methodology from AC to the Point of Load (PoL). The performance of the component is described, highlighting how the VIA...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Temperature measurement, current monitoring, power supply sequencing, fan control and fault logging are typical board control functions used in complex circuit designs. System designers are faced with continual pressure to meet their development schedules, and need to implement control functions with minimal effort and...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
