The humble yet ever-present AC/DC wall-power adapter doesn’t get a lot of consideration from consumers. It’s one of those things that’s needed but is viewed as a necessary nuisance. I suspect that ...

USB has the potential to address the demand for simplifying the design of miniature power adapters by combining interface signals and power in a single cable. Now, in its fourth generation since its ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The impetus to reduce power demands of just about every device out there is the mantra of today’s power ecosystem. Manufacturers are under tremendous ...

Single-phase power factor correction (PFC) circuits—a kind of front-end AC/DC converters—are ubiquitous in a variety of ...