Application flexibility and cost concerns are creating a demand for intelligent power-supply designs that support soft configuration in production and external control. These advanced power supplies ...

With so many inexpensive, dedicated analog PWM controllers available, why should a designer opt for digital feedback control using a DSC? One advantage to using a DSC is that operating modes (voltage ...

In any discussion of digital power, a distinction must be made between two key concepts: power control and power management. Ericsson uses the term power control to address the control functions that ...

Digital power is advancing on a broad front, even as IC makers struggle to balance its purpose and scope against marketing hype to take a still ill-defined area “to the next level.” With the defacto ...

Every plant in the process industry most likely has several control loops that do not perform well. Although there are many factors that may negatively affect control loop performance, a few of these ...