Power Management Integration Center
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One of the best circuit designs for high-performance power delivery is a multi-phase buck converter with coupled inductors. The coupling fundamentally alters the trade-offs between ripple current, loss, energy storage, and transient response, enabling improvements in one or more of these aspects without compromises in the others. This webinar will de-mystify this technology, starting with a simple, intuitive model and showing how a more complete model can be developed building on the simple model.
Despite the popularity of coupled inductors and their well-known advantages, a simple performance optimization, based on the wrong assumptions, indicates that they have little benefit. We’ll look carefully at how to structure a simple optimization to get the full benefit and unlock the potential for high efficiency with small, low-cost components and extremely fast transient capability.
Expect to come away with an intuitive understanding and the tools to model, design, and optimize coupled inductor circuits and components.
Hosted by the NSF Power Management Integration Center (PMIC), this special event is part of our monthly Industry Advisory Board series, but unlike most, this one is free and open to everyone, not just members.