Design philosophy and selection of output capacitors for buck regulators As you can see, this part won’t cover many topics. First, the discussion on input capacitors will be finished. The input ...

Recently, a mobile phone service technician wanted me to build a battery emulator that would enable him to test and run a Li-ion battery-powered mobile phone without using its battery pack. Because he ...

There are several ways to convert an AC voltage at a wall receptacle into the DC voltage required by a microcontroller. Traditionally, this has been done with a transformer and rectifier. However, in ...