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Design considerations when selecting half bridge resonant LLC converters and primary side MOSFETs

Reduce carbon emissions: Few dispute the need to curtail the production of carbon emissions, but the challenge requires a constant increase in the efficiency of all the involved electronic systems.
Electronic Design

A Clever Voltage-Fed Half-Bridge Converter Architecture

Download this article in PDF format. Design engineers often turn to push-pull, half-bridge, and full-bridge power-converter designs for higher power output. These architectures show up from 200 W to ...
Electronic Design

Applying Synchronous Rectification in Resonant Half-Bridge Converters

Technology developed for driving synchronous FETs in flyback topologies can be directly applied in LLC topologies. This technology offers significant gains in efficiency for applications with low ...
EDN

LLC Power Conversion Explained, Part 3: Understanding transformers

In LLC Power Conversion Explained, Part 2: Sine Wave from a Square Wave, a basic square wave Switched Mode Power Supply was shown to be filtered from a square wave into a sine wave. This resulted in a ...