EDN

High Efficiency Constant Current Buck Converter for LED Lighting

This is a design idea of high efficiency constant current buck converter for LED lighting using LinkSwitch-TN. It operates in an input voltage ranging from 108 VAC to132 VAC and delivers an output of ...
Hackaday

Circuit VR: An (Almost) Practical Buck Converter

In the last installment of Circuit VR, we walked around a simplified buck converter. The main simplification was using a constant PWM signal. The result is that the output voltage is a fixed fraction ...
EDN

175 mW Constant Voltage Non-Isolated Buck Converter

This document is a design example report of 175 mW constant voltage, universal input, non-isolated buck converter employing LinkSwitch™-TN2 LNK3202D. It normally operates with an input voltage ranging ...
Electronic Design

Ripple Generating Circuit for Constant-On-Time Controlled Buck Converters

A ripple-generating circuit is usually needed to ensure stability of constant-on-time (COT) controlled buck converters. Different values of the ripple generating circuit can have direct impacts on ...
Electronic Design

Measuring Input Current of a Buck or Flyback Converter

For the PDF version of this article, click here. When designing converters, it is often desirable to measure the dc current coming into the converter. This is particularly true when batteries are ...