For the PDF version of this article, click here. High performance microprocessors require a low-voltage, high-current power supply with fast transient response. Therefore, interleaved multiphase ...

The buck converter is the most common power supply topology and power engineers are well-versed in its strengths and weakness. One of the challenges in any power system design is the current sensing.

Current sensing is a critical part of microprocessor VR11x computing power as it provides overcurrent protection, phase-to-phase balancing and load line adherence. The trend is to lower voltage and ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a DC/DC step-down controller with remote bipolar junction transistor (BJT) temperature-compensated inductor current sensing. The benefit is a smaller design footprint ...

Editor’s note: A little while ago we published Part 1and Part 3 of this three-part series is also published. The fundamentals to translating the analog world into the digital domain reduces to a ...

Current sensing remains a challenge and while most engineers use DCR current sensing it is notoriously inaccurate. So what can be done to improve accuracy? The buck converter is the most common power ...