A hybrid DC-DC converter topology boosts efficiency by combining a buck regulator and a charge pump. Is it the future of intermediate bus conversion?

I am pleased to bring you this month’s author for RAQ on Planet Analog, Frederik Dostal [[email protected]]. He studied microelectronics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Greinacher voltage multiplier, invented by Swiss physicist Heinrich Greinacher in 1919. In 1932, Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton used this basic circuit to ...

While simple voltage converters can generate a fixed output voltage from an input voltage, this behavior isn’t sufficient in certain applications. An example is the control of a voltage node that has ...

To set new reliability standards for data centres worldwide, a semiconductor startup is redefining AI power delivery, ...

With SINAMICS PCS, Siemens presents a new power conversion system for battery storage applications. The SINAMICS PCS grid converter makes locally generated batter power usable for industrial and ...