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
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
Patrick Le Fèvre, Marketing and Communication Director, Ericsson
A comparison of alternative on-board power solutions is rarely at the top of the agenda for a board designer. Often designers will use a previous solution because all available resources and time
Alberto Guerra and Diego Raffo, International Rectifier
Considering that almost 60 percent of total electric energy produced worldwide is used to run motors of every size, shape and efficiency, the adoption of variable speed drives can save as much as 70 percent of energy costs by controlling the speed of the load. New energy efficiency standards for compressors an
Marcus O’Sullivan Applications engineer, Power Management Group, Analog Devices
Many high power systems require the use of a hot-swap device to safely control of the inrush currents at powerup and provide fault protection.
These circuits are commonly found in systems such as servers, network switches, redundant-array-of-independent-disk (RAID) storage, and other forms of communications infrastru
