For the PDF version of this article, click here. Let's return to the question, “Why Have an Air Gap?” initially posed in the Power Design article in the December 2002 issue of Power Electronics ...

A continuous-conduction-mode (CCM) flyback converter is often used in medium power, isolated applications. CCM operation is characterized by lower peak switching currents, less input and output ...

Flyback converters can operate either in continuous-conduction mode (CCM) or discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM). For many low-power and low-current applications, though, the DCM flyback converter can ...

ON Semiconductor is introducing a critical conduction mode ‘bridge-less*’ totem-pole PFC (power factor correction) controller, claiming it to be industry’s first dedicated IC. Called NCP1680, at its ...