It never fails — we post a somewhat simple project using a microcontroller and someone points out that it could have been accomplished better with a 555 timer or discrete transistors or even a couple ...

This state-of-the-art synchronous buck-boost converter operates in either buck mode or boost mode, which enables high efficiency over wide input voltage range. The parallel of MOSFETs along with ...

Boost converters are useful devices for designers because they solve different power issues at low, medium, and high voltages. These issues can occur at any of these voltage levels. A voltage step-up ...

Traditional synchronous boost converters offer little to no protection against short-circuit events at the output. Due to the boost converter’s topology, when the output is shorted to ground, a direct ...

A high-efficiency buck-boost DC-DC converter was developed by the research team headed by Prof. CHENG Lin from the School of Microelectronics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC ...

Cheap DC-DC converters have been a boon on the hobbyist bench for a while now, but they can wreak havoc with sensitive circuits if you’re not careful. The problem: noise generated by the switch-mode ...