Technical Features

December 2012

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Figure 1: Conventional Intermediate Bus Architectures use a fixed-ratio isolated bus converter (IBC) to step down 48V to a 12V intermediate rail, which then feeds niPOL converters

Current Multipliers: The Obvious Choice for Powering AI Processors and Other Demanding Applications

Tom Curatolo, Industrial BU Apps Engineer, Vicor

AI processors can draw up to thousands of amps while operating at voltages well below 1V. This current demand is unprecedented and has turned the power delivery network (PDN) into a major system bottleneck. With every amp pushed through PCB or substrate copper power planes, conductive losses and, thermal m

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Date:

10/31/2025

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Figure 1: Inductor-current waveform

Power inductors and peak-current handling capability

Nelson Garcia, Engineering Manager, Renco Electronics

As high-tech electronic products and their power supplies continue to shrink in size, design engineers should look closely at the peak-current handling capability of power inductors. Design engineers

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Date:

12/23/2012

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Figure 1: SOA (a) and ZthJC (b) charts for the BSC014N04LS

Thermal design considerations for thin power MOSFETs

Ralf Walter, Application Engineer, Infineon Technologies AG

Thermal challenges accompany almost all advances in power-electronic designs. Load cases not covered under a datasheet's parameters are often particularly problematic. Each new MOSFET generation

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Date:

12/19/2012

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String central inverter system

Frank Hinrichsen and Mark Ahmling, Wind and Sun Technologies

Planners of photovoltaic power plants are no longer bound to string inverter concepts if multiple MMP(maximum power point)-trackers are required. Central inverter systems are, today, standard for

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Date:

12/18/2012

Control and protection rests on measurement precision

Stéphane Rollier, Product and MarCom Manager, and Bernard Richard, Business Development Manager, LEM

Designers of solar power—photo-voltaic or PV—generating systems face some of the same problems as their counterparts in any other power-related technology: the need to constantly improve performance, reliability, longevity, and—above all—efficiency. As with any engineering endeavour, improved performance re

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Date:

12/12/2012

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Figure 1: The DiSEqC application circuit

Designing a DiSEqC-antenna phantom power-supply

Andrea Longobardi, Product Definer and Corporate Applications Engineer, Maxim Integrated

The DiSEqC (digital satellite equipment control) standard is a communication protocol developed by Eutelsat used between a satellite receiver (decoder), defined as the master, and satellite peripheral

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Date:

12/04/2012