Synchronous buck converters have received great attention in low power, low voltage DC-DC converter applications in recent years due to their high efficiency. International Rectifier Inc. has ...

Click here for the enhanced PDF version of this article including diagrams and/or equations. Compensation of switching power supplies is an essential element of proper and robust power design. The ...

In a previous blog entry I demonstrated the use of PID techniques, but a PID is not the only structure of a compensator. The nice thing about a PID is that once you have an implementation of the code, ...

In 1938 Hendrik Wade Bode, who worked at Bell Labs, published his asymptotic assessment of phase margin and gain margin, bearing his name [2]. The Bode plot is recognized for its simplicity and the ...