Buck-Converter Design Demystified

Focus:

Hard-to-find rules of thumb and calculations for designing buck converters

What you’ll learn:

• How to design a buck converter
• How to design a fixed switching frequency, PWM controlled buck regulator operating in continuous-current mode
• How to calculate component values in a buck converter design

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Author & Publication:

Donald Schelle and Jorge Castorena, Technical Staff, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, Calif., Power Electronics Technology, Jun 01 2006

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