Electronic Design

Power-Density Goals Can be Helped by Soft-Switching Options

Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Understand MOSFET Switch Behavior Via An LED Driver Simulation

Automotive incandescent bulbs have largely given way to more efficient, reliable, stylish, and even safer light emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs turn on in a fraction of the time and are especially useful ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Review on Driving Circuits for Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Switching Devices for Mid- to High-Power Applications

“Wide-bandgap (WBG) material-based switching devices such as gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Embedded

Two-Switch Forward/Flyback Converter Overview

The Forward and Flyback converters are two popular topologies widely used in isolated DC-DC power converters. These topologies are favored by designers for their simplicity, ability to handle multiple ...
Electronic Design

Back to Basics: Voltage Regulator ICs, Part 1

Among regulators, the simplest regulator circuit is for a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator whose topology is shown in Fig. 1. As a linear voltage regulator, its ...
Business Wire

Cree Launches Industry’s First Commercial Silicon Carbide Power MOSFET; Destined to Replace Silicon Devices in High Voltage (≥ 1200V) Power Electronics

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a move that heralds a performance revolution in energy efficient power electronics, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, ...