Fundamentals
of Power
Welcome to the Power Design Center. Here you will find resources, tips and tools that will help you with your power design decisions by market, product type, and topology. This hub will be your key reference center whether you are a new or seasoned power engineer.
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Everything Power in one place
The Power Management guide is your go to source for TI’s latest power products and resources.
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Display University Training Series
In this on-demand training series, learn about a variety of LCD and OLED display power and backlighting design topics from TI experts. You can choose which curriculum best suits your needs and learn at your own pace through this series, which covers a broad spectrum of subject matter from display basics to more in depth videos on design considerations and overcoming specific display design challenges.
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ESD Essentials Training Series
This series includes 6 videos on the basics of electrostatic discharge (ESD). Each video is less than five minutes, and covers the concepts you need to know before selecting the right ESD protection – like working voltages, capacitance, and how to assess ESD ratings in datasheets.
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Tips and tricks for designing with voltage references
This document provides a comprehensive overview of voltage reference basics and application design. Learn about the basics with topics covering voltage reference essentials, voltage reference performance and design guidelines with data converters, and the functional flexibility of voltage references to serve as low-drift DC voltage or current sources. READ MORE…
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Basics of Power Switches
This application note highlights the different topologies within the power switch portfolio, and provides suggestions in choosing the correct solution for a faster design time.
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High Voltage Interactive Training Series
Like videos? Designing in high-voltage applications? Binge watch your favorite high-voltage training videos. Topics range from fundamentals of PFC and gate drivers to SiC and GaN-based designs.
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Battery Management Deep Dive
TI’s battery experts have decades of experience. Our battery scientists bring cutting-edge solutions for new battery chemistries & technologies, from charging, gauging, monitoring, protection and more. This technical training was especially developed for design engineers working with power supply for battery-powered systems. Additional resources and design tools are provided for each training to complete your training experience.
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Fundamentals of Power Supply Design
Fundamentals of Power Supply Design draws upon decades of experience from Texas Instruments’ Power-Systems experts. It is written by Bob Mammano, a pioneer in the power supply industry and recognized as “the Father” of the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller. The book starts out with power supply basics such as voltage regulation and power component selection, and then addresses advanced topics such as magnetics design, minimizing EMI, and topology selection. The book is a readable resource that contains equations and theories but also chronicles the history of the power supply industry. Actual measurements are also used throughout to illustrate practical example circuits. This book will be your key reference guide whether you are a new or seasoned power engineer.
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Ultra-Low Power Timers Cut Effects of Leakage Currents
A family of ultra-low-power system timers is intended specifically for reducing power during system sleep time. These ICs, called nanotimers, provide various methods for a system to enter a no-power mode, including a simple control signal from a local microcontroller to indicate the start of the off cycle. The system timer then takes care of starting up the circuit after a preprogrammed amount of time. READ MORE…
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Power Topologies Handbook
The Power Management Lab Kit series is comprised of five boards, each offering unique experiments and accompanied by an experiment lab book covering four key power topologies and case studies demonstrating different aspects of power supply design tradeoffs.
The boards cover a variety of possible tests and measurements which can be performed in teaching labs. The boards are designed to investigate the influence of physical parameters and operation conditions of a power supply on its own performance.
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Power Topologies Quick Reference Guide
Download this Power Topologies Quick Reference Guide to learn and refer back to 17 of the most common, power supply topologies with the most important waveforms and equations.
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Power Stage Designer™ Tool of Most Commonly Used Switch-mode Power Supplies
Power Stage Designer™ is a JAVA based tool that helps engineers accelerate their power-supply designs by calculating voltages and currents of 20 topologies according to the user’s inputs. Additionally, Power Stage Designer contains a Bode plotting tool and a toolbox with various functions to make power supply design easier. Because all calculations are executed in real time, this is the quickest tool to start a new power supply design.
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TI Power Management Lab Kit
This book includes over 200 pages filled with all power-supply topology waveforms and equations, including 16 of the most common hard-switched power-supply topologies and the Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge. Here you will find every value for every part in an easy-to-download format. In addition, all of these topologies are supported by TI’s Power Stage Designer tool.
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Power Supply Characteristics FAQs
Efficiency is the most important power supply characteristic affecting an electronic system’s operation, but other factors, such as output overcurrent, overtemperature, inrush current, output overvoltage, drift, dynamic response, line regulation, and load regulation, are also important. READ MORE…
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Linear power for automated industrial systems
When it comes to power management there is a wide variety of topologies that can be employed. However, in automation systems it is common to find a high DC voltage already being used for a motor or in the system’s control lines, most commonly 12V or 24V. While a large number of systems benefit from high-power efficiency DC/DC architectures in order to achieve a lower voltage, there is a great demand for linear regulators (LDOs) to provide voltage regulation to other semiconductor systems in charge of metering, sensing and to control major motor functions. This paper reviews the requirements for linear regulators intended for use within industrial or factory automation systems and their benefits.
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Achieving low noise and low EMI performance with DC/DC switching regulators
Mitigating switching regulator EMI and noise is seen by engineers as a black art. Mess with the feng shui of the PCB layout too much, and the system may not pass CISPR standards. Because of this, many power designers simply turn to linear regulators as a guaranteed way to avoid the headache of reducing emissions. But with inferior efficiency, linear regulators then present potential thermal issues that could be avoided by using a switching regulator. How can you get the best of both worlds?
This training series – along with all of the accompanying documentation – is meant to illustrate how engineers can get the superior efficiency of a switcher while also overcoming the challenges of EMI and noise. Both conceptual and practical examples of EMI and noise best practices are presented, along with specific commentary regarding powering automotive systems as well as noise-sensitive analog circuitry.
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Hysteretic-Mode Converters Demystified, Part 1
A three-part article will examine Hysteretic-Mode converters branded as D-CAP, D-CAP+, D-CAP2, D-CAP3, constant-on-time, or DCS-Control. Among several control methods of switch-mode power supply systems in the power-electronics market, this group of HM control devices is gaining and expanding its share against traditional Voltage-Mode or Current-Mode controls. READ MORE…
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Hysteretic-Mode Converters Demystified, Part 2: Voltage and Current Mode Control
Part 2 of this series sorts the pros and cons of step-down (buck) regulators by conducting apple-to-apple comparisons, being as unbiased as possible. This involved the generation of over 200 graphs and waveforms behind the scenes to highlight the difference between converters. It will not say that control mode A is better than control mode B, but will showcase the key points of each control mode. READ MORE…
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Hysteretic-Mode Converters Demystified, Part 3: Regulator Stability
Part 3 will review ac behavior and stability of hysteretic-mode (HM) compared with voltage-mode (VM) and current-mode (CM) control in depth because stability is a major concern for voltage-regulator design quality and reliability. READ MORE…
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