Constrained by battery capacity, notebook manufacturers seek more efficient as well as lower-priced components for their designs. Active and passive devices used on VRMs (voltage regulator modules) ...

How many datasheets have we, as engineers, reviewed that included all of the data we need? If your experiences are like mine, very few times if at all. To compound the problem, the data listed ...

Inductor selection for very-low-power or very-high-power energy conversion is not as simple a process as it is for the majority of power-supply designs. Off-the-shelf inductors from major suppliers ...

Creating a basic inductor on a substrate sounds easy—just metallize the substrate, preferably with a spiral, serpentine, or other pattern. While traditional microchip inductors are relatively large 2D ...