Wireless communications took a small leap forward today with the announcement that researchers have created a functional integrated circuit smaller than a grain of salt. The circuit is a broadband ...

The LED backlight in an LCD panel is the biggest power hog in notebook and tablet applications. As screen resolution and brightness level increase, the input power consumed by the LED backlight ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Boost power converters have been widely used for Power Factor Correction (PFC) in ac-dc conversions [1] and for power ...

Use of buck-boost circuits in switching-regulator ICs. Considerations in level-shift circuit design. Switching regulators with internal level shifting. The magnitude of the negative voltage generated ...

Combining the operation of a boost regulator and a negative voltage converter can generate a negative supply from a single low voltage supply. The circuit in Figure 5 shows a standard application ...