For those living before the invention of the transistor, the modern world must appear almost magical. ... The buck converter was designed by [hesam.moshiri] using a MP9486 chip.

The first thing I ever built without a kit was a 5 V regulated power supply using the old LM309K. That’s a classic linear regulator like a 7805. While they are simple, they waste a lot of ene… ...

However, as with any type of design, the buck-boost-converter brings its share of design challenges. For example, consider one common application for buck-boost converters: battery-to-battery charging ...

2. Hard-switching FoM for silicon and GaN transistors over voltage. Experimental Comparison. To validate the advantages of GaN presented in this paper, we evaluated buck converters based on the ...

Download this article in PDF format. The synchronous buck converter is a widely used topology in low-voltage, high-current applications. One common application is a point-of-load (POL) converter ...

Upon closer examination the switching processes of the synchronous buck converter are surprisingly complex. We can easily distinguish 9 major components of these losses: conduction and gate charge ...

OTTAWA, Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GaN Systems, the global leader in GaN power semiconductors, today announced the availability of its 5MHz buck converter evaluation board (GS61008P-EVBHF ...

Buck Converter: A type of DC–DC converter that steps down voltage by rapidly switching a transistor and utilising filtering elements. Bifurcation: ...

As electronics become more advanced, the need for efficient power management increases. One crucial element of power management is the DC-DC converter, which is a device that converts DC voltage from ...