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Choosing and Using Ferrite Beads

Choosing and Using Ferrite Beads

This article provides practical guidance on using ferrite beads to improve your PCB’s power quality.


Clean Power for Every IC, Part 3: Understanding Ferrite Beads

Clean Power for Every IC, Part 3: Understanding Ferrite Beads

Ferrite beads used in conjunction with bypass capacitors can provide improved power-supply filtering and decoupling.


Clean Power for Every IC, Part 2: Choosing and Using Your Bypass Capacitors

Clean Power for Every IC, Part 2: Choosing and Using Your Bypass Capacitors

Proper component selection and careful PCB layout are integral to power supply bypassing.


Clean Power for Every IC, Part 1: Understanding Bypass Capacitors

Clean Power for Every IC, Part 1: Understanding Bypass Capacitors

A thorough understanding of bypass capacitors will help you to properly incorporate these critical components into your designs.


Discontinuous Conduction Mode of Simple Converters

Discontinuous Conduction Mode of Simple Converters

Discussed here are the discontinuous conduction mode, mode boundary, and conversion ratio of simple converters.


Basic Inductor Design

Basic Inductor Design

Inductor design characteristics are defined in terms of various parameters. Inductor winding is made of a conductor material which may be a single round wire or a unique multi-stranded conductor known as Litz wire. Litz wire has the main advantage of reduced skin effect. Inductor design characteristics are defined in terms of various parameters which are discussed in this technical article.