Electronic Design

Measuring Input Current of a Buck or Flyback Converter

For the PDF version of this article, click here. When designing converters, it is often desirable to measure the dc current coming into the converter. This is particularly true when batteries are ...
Electronic Design

Buck Regulators Quench Current-Loop Transmitter’s Power Thirst

Significant efficiency and performance improvements can be realized by improving the current loop’s power supplies, replacing linear regulators with high-efficiency buck regulators. It also increases ...
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175 mW Constant Voltage Non-Isolated Buck Converter

This document is a design example report of 175 mW constant voltage, universal input, non-isolated buck converter employing LinkSwitch™-TN2 LNK3202D. It normally operates with an input voltage ranging ...
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High Efficiency Constant Current Buck Converter for LED Lighting

This is a design idea of high efficiency constant current buck converter for LED lighting using LinkSwitch-TN. It operates in an input voltage ranging from 108 VAC to132 VAC and delivers an output of ...