Vendor-provided online design tools allow engineers to start developing and evaluating designs quickly, gaining critical insights into design alternatives and engineering tradeoffs, even in advance of sampling major power components....More
This article looks at how the PI2211 hot swap controller and circuit breaker models MOSFET thermal characteristics internally while providing protection from circuit card insertion, steady state use and fault conditions....More
UAVs (Drones) have multiple power buses and a need to minimize weight, including in power management electronics. Vicor's Stephen Oliver considers alternative topologies....More
Vicor’s Picor PI33xx buck regulator family uses the company’s zero voltage switching (ZVS) topology to increase point-of-load (POL) performance and maximize efficiency....More
High-voltage fixed-ratio bus converters have been around for some time, adequately serving the needs of intermediate bus architectures (IBAs). But the emergence of a variety of new high-voltage, high-power dc-dc market applications is driving demand for a new generation of bus converters with input ranges higher than 400 V....More
