The buck converter has emerged as a critical element in modern power electronics, offering highly efficient voltage step‐down conversion for a wide array of applications. Recent advances have focused ...

In part one of this series, we thrashed out the basics of LED lighting sources and their driving requirements. The performance of simple driving techniques, such as voltage sources/ballast resistors ...

So how does current mode control work in the first place? There have been many attempts to explain the workings of current mode control with complex mathematics. But this author has always taken the ...

Step-down (buck) voltage regulators have long been the preferred DC-DC conversion electronic workhorse thanks to their inherently high efficiency. Only in buck mode the current is directed to the ...

The first major performance item to review is large-signal load-transient response performance. Here, a large-signal phrase is used in contrast to a small-signal. A small-signal transient literally ...

National Semiconductor Corporation (www.national.com) has introduced nine single, dual and quad operational amplifiers based on its proprietary VIP50 BiCMOS process. National Semiconductor Corporation ...