A good switching power supply requires a good printed circuit board. In order to make an efficient one, the PCB designer should understand the phenomenon behind the operation of the typical switching ...

Adapted from The Circuit Designer's Companion, Third Ed., by Peter Wilson (Newnes). [Part 1 began a look at grounding: when to consider it, how chassis materials affect it, and the problem of ground ...

Phoenix Contact's Trio Power family integrates a circuit breaker, bringing supply and protection into a single unit that outputs up to 40 A. A new family of three-phase power supplies from Phoenix ...

TDK-LAMBDA HAS unveiled its latest addition to its ZWS line of compact AC-DC pcb-mountable power supplies. The new single-output ZWS-BAF series are 100 Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf ...

Every single desktop PC, console, or laptop has one of these. It won't boost your frame rate, nor does it have billions of transistors, and it's not manufactured using the latest chip process nodes.