If you’ve got the hankering to own a lab full of high-end gear but your budget is groaning in protest, rolling your own test equipment can be a great option. Not everything the complete shop needs is ...

Integrating a Schottky diode onto a MOSFET chip reduces the power loss attributed to the low-side switch in a buck converter, improving efficiency at light loads and high frequencies. Spiro Zefferys, ...

Designers use electronic dc loads for testing power supplies and sources, such as solar arrays or batteries, but commercial ones are often expensive. By using a power MOSFET in its linear region, you ...

Chroma’s Model 6310 is a series of Programmable DC Electronic Load featuring maximum power capacity of 200 W, and parallel load modules in one frame, for testing multiple output SMPS. It offers ...

Testing DC supplies can be done in many ways, from connecting an actual load like a motor, to using a dummy load in the manner of a big resistor. [Jasper Sikken] is opening up his smart tester for ...

Providing modern electronic devices with a diet of healthy power is not straightforward. Small AC-connected equipment often uses a capacitor-input filter following a half- or full-wave rectifier.

The convergence of information technology (IT) equipment and telecommunications networks has brought about the need to power equipment with a variety of input requirements. Designers of today's ...

DC-to-DC switching converters are widely used in most portable devices. They efficiently generate various regulated supply voltages for different sub-blocks within the same system board. A typical ...