EDN

Electronic ballast circuits enhance resonant-mode power supplies

Resonant-mode topologies offer many benefits over traditional buck, boost, and flyback solutions. These include soft-switching, higher operating frequencies, higher power density, and higher ...
Circuit Digest

PI's TOPSwitchGaN Flyback ICs Make Resonant Topologies Optional at 440 W

Delivering 440 W of power typically requires sophisticated resonant topologies, but Power Integrations (PI) has changed that with its TOPSwitchGaN flyback IC family, based on its PowiGaN tech and ...
Electronic Design

LLC Resonant Converters Raise the Power-Efficiency Bar

Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) are known for their superior efficiency. And while they achieve a significant level of efficiency, the quest to improve it even further continues to march on. One ...
EDN

Power-electronics book review of Resonant Power Converters

A recently published second-edition book, Resonant Power Converters, put out in 2011 by the IEEE and Wiley, and written by two professors, Marian K. Kazamierczuk and Dariusz Czarkowski, has 600 pages ...
Electronic Design

Understanding Voltage Response Of An LC Circuit

For an undamped LC circuit excited by an AC voltage source through simple phaser equations, we come to see that the circuit becomes short circuited at the resonant frequency. However if we analyze the ...
HotHardware

AMD Will Push 'Piledriver' Beyond 4GHz Using Resonant Clock Mesh Technology

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to use resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor to push its Piledriver processor line to 4GHz and beyond, the company announced at the ...
Business Wire

Toshiba’s New Discrete IGBT for Voltage Resonance Circuits Contributes to Lower Power Consumption and Easier Design of Equipment

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched the “GT20N135SRA,” a 1350V discrete IGBT for use in voltage resonance circuits in tabletop IH cookers, ...