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Efficient Buck Conversion at 150V

Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert for Power Management, Analog Devices

­  Buck converters are a great asset for power designers who wish to convert a DC signal to a lower one. They are compact, accurate, efficient, cheap and easy to design into a circuit in comparison to other options, which mainly involve using bulky transformers. One of their very few drawbacks is that the
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Date:
05/21/2025
Bringing 48V Bus Benefits to Industrial Applications

Philip Simpson, Field Applications Engineer at Vicor Corporation

  There is currently a lot of traction in the automotive industry around the move from the 12V power distribution bus to the new 48V bus. The higher voltage offers a few advantages, but the main one is that increasing the voltage by a factor of four means that the current can be decreased by a similar
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Date:
05/15/2025