Power Electronics
With the advent of Electric Vehicles and Internet of things the need for sophisticated power electronic design has increased. These new fields are constantly evolving the demands for high-power motor drives, energy efficient power supplies, wireless power transfer etc.
In this section we will design and test various power electronic projects for a wide variety of applications including EV, Solar, IoT, SMPS Power supplies, LED Drivers, Portable power supplies etc. The section also covers the latest power electronic news and articles to update the readers with latest technology trends.
High Power High Efficiency Buck Converter Circuit using TL494
A buck converter (step-down converter) is a DC-to-DC switching converter that steps down voltage while maintaining a constant...
Stereo Audio Pre-Amplifier Circuit with Bass and Treble Control using Transistors
Often times, we need to control bass, treble, and volume of our audio signal before passing it through amplification stages to...
Build Your Own Guitar Distortion Pedal Circuit
Who does not like the rumbling tone of a distorted electric guitar? It is a key part of many important genres of music, especially in blues and...
High Power LA4440 Double IC Stereo Audio Amplifier with Bass and Treble Control
The LA4440 is a very popular dual-channel audio amplifier commonly used to build high power audio amplifiers. The IC is known...
Simple 2x32 Watt Audio Amplifier with TDA2050
If you are thinking about building a simple, cheap, and moderately high power amplifier circuit that can deliver up to 50-watt...
Buck Boost Regulator using XL6009 with Adjustable 3.3V to 12V Output Voltage
Buck-Boost regulator is made using two different topologies, as the name suggests, it consists of both buck and boost topology...
PWM Inverter Circuit using TL494
An inverter is a circuit that converts Direct Current (DC) to Alternating Current (AC). A PWM inverter is a type of circuit...
Build your own Adjustable Electronic DC Load using Arduino
If you have ever worked with Batteries, SMPS circuits or other Power supply circuits, then often it would have occurred that...
Switched Capacitor Voltage Converter
A switched capacitor voltage converter performs energy transfer and voltage conversion using capacitors. There are mainly two...
Current Divider Circuits Explained with Formula and Practical Hardware
When designing an electronic circuit, there are lots of situations when a circuit requires different values of voltage and...
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What is Bleeder Resistor and where it is used?
Bleeder resistors are standard high value resistors which are used to discharge the capacitor in filter circuit. The...
Bi-Directional Logic Level converter using MOSFET
Back in the ENIAC era, computers were more analog in nature and used very few digital ICs. Today an average Joe’s computer...
Diode Clipper Circuits: Design & Demonstration
As the name suggests, Clipper circuit is used to “clip” a portion of input signal without distorting the remaining part of the...
Galvanic Isolation – Signal Isolation and Power Isolation
An average household microwave oven operating at 110/220V AC can produce upto 2800V inside it, which is dangerously lethal....
Understanding Maxwell Equations
Maxwell equations are the fundamentals of Electromagnetic theory, which constitutes a set of four equations relating the...
Transimpedance Amplifier - Current to Voltage Converter
To explain in simple words a Transimpedance amplifier is a converter circuit which converts the input current to a proportional...
Understanding Power Factor and How It Affects your Energy Bills
Aside from safety and reliability, several other goals including efficiency should be pursued in the design and implementation...
Current Regulators: Construction, Working and Design Types
Just like situations in which we need to regulate the voltage in our designs, there are scenarios where we need to regulate the...
Current Mirror Circuit: Wilson and Widlar Current Mirroring Techniques
In the previous article, we discussed about Current Mirror Circuit and how it can be built using Transistor and MOSFET. Despite...
Current Mirror Circuit (Part 1): Introduction, Characteristics and Construction
The Current Mirror is a widely popular technique for monolithic IC design. In this technique, the circuit is designed in such a...
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8V to 24V output, 300W i7C Series of Non-Isolated Buck-Boost DC-DC Converters for Battery-Powered Equipment
TDK Corporation has introduced the 20A 300W rated models to the TDK Lambda brand i7C series of non-isolated DC-DC converters...
Galvanically Isolated 4A Gate Driver for Safe Control of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs
STGAP2SiCS from STMicroelectronics is a highly optimized galvanically isolated gate driver that operates from a high-voltage...
Efficient Power ICs with Low Quiescent Current to Extend Battery Life for Consumer, Industrial, Healthcare and IoT Applications
Maxim Integrated Products has introduced essential analog efficient power ICs, MAX17227A 2A nanoPower boost converter, MAX17291...
650V Super Junction Power MOSFETs in TOLL (TO-leadless) Package to Improve Efficiency of High Current Equipment
Toshiba has released five new 650V super-junction power MOSFETs TK065U65Z, TK090U65Z, TK110U65Z, TK155U65Z, and TK190U65Z in...
CoolGan 600V e-mode HEMT for Increased Efficiency and Reliability in Telecom Power Applications
The CoolGaN 600V e-mode HEMT from Infineon Technologies ensures to deliver high efficiency and reliability in telecom power...
650V CoolSic Hybrid Discrete for Improved Efficiency and Reliability in Automotive Applications
Infineon’s 650 V CoolSiC Hybrid Discrete is a high-performing, reliable, and cost-efficient device specifically designed for...
1200V αSiC MOSFETs to Meet High Efficiency and Reliability Requirements of Electric Vehicle Applications
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor have collaboratively come up with AEC-Q101 qualified 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) αSiC MOSFETs,...
Compact LDO Regulators Offer High Ripple Rejection Ratio for Enhanced Power Stabilization in Smartphones and Wearable Devices
The new TCR5RG series of 45 LDO regulators from Toshiba is housed in a thin and compact WCSP4F package and offers a high ripple...
Silicon Carbide MOSFET Module Released for Higher Efficiency and Miniaturization of Industrial Equipment
MG800FXF2YMS3, a silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET module from Toshiba Electronic Devices integrates newly developed dual-channel...
Radiation-Hardened DC to DC Power Converters with COTS Technology to Maximize System Performance and Reliability in Space Applications
Microchip’s SA50-120 series is the family of space-qualified COTS-based radiation-hardened DC to DC power converters that help...