A basic requirement for all electronic circuits is the inclusion of bypass, or decoupling, capacitors. These devices reside across the positive supply to ground, as close as possible to the supply pin ...

Note: For a PDF version of this article click here. Power supply ripple and transient specifications establish the requirements for the amount of capacitance you will need. They also set limits on the ...

When considering any new part in the signal chain, input/output impedance is usually an important spec to “bolt” the necessary signal-chain blocks together properly. For a high-speed converter, this ...

In most power-supply design examples it is common to arbitrarily place the crossover frequency at one-fifth or one-tenth the switching frequency. However, the crossover frequency actually affects the ...