Increasing demands for improvements in power supply efficiency means that traditional rectification using standard, ultrafast and Schottky diodes is gradually being replaced by elaborate schemes using ...

Linear Technology Corp. recently introduced the LTC4015, a highly integrated, high voltage multichemistry synchronous step-down battery charger controller with onboard telemetry functions. Linear ...

The advantages offered by a synchronous buck or boost topology can also be applied to a buck-boost topology, where the converter’s output voltage falls within its input range. In this case, a ...