When designing an offline flyback power supply, integrating the IC with the other components can be overwhelming. Integrating the transformer properly is more than finding the turns-ratio to match ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. In last month's Power Design column, we examined the functional principles of continuous mode (or incomplete energy transfer mode) of a flyback ...

PI Expert, Power Integrations’ online power supply design program, now features a planar magnetics builder, along with a database of planar cores. With this update, PI Expert can generate an ...

Using a flyback topology to generate a high voltage is a common approach. The voltage can charge a capacitor for a high-energy pulse. Such an approach is used in defibrillator capacitors, photoflash ...

The paper shows how the technique of dynamic programming was applied to the problem of determining the optimum mix of widths of steel used to `pack' a transformer coil. The approach enables the ...

Cobham Technical Services claims that the development of new generations of transformers and line reactors is radically simplified and accelerated by a new automated software toolbox from its Vector ...