The power supply in your computer manages all of the power required to run each component of your computer. When this critical component begins to fail, your computer may power off unexpectedly, ...

Before we go forward and run some of the tests that we are going to see hereinafter, let us check a few of the symptoms to understand if those tests are worth doing. We have mentioned some symptoms ...

There are three main elements to our testing equipment which are each there to provide us with different pieces of information to judge the quality of a power supply: SM-268 Active Load Tester This ...

Previously, I posted part 1 and 2 of a 3 part series on how to test your power supply design: measuring efficiency (part 1) and measuring noise (part 2). I covered various noise sources and how to ...

When your bench supply's capacitors are all charged up with nowhere for that charge to go, an active down-programmer is a handy technique that brings rise and fall times back into a viable range. Here ...

To help power supply development, semiconductor companies offer evaluation boards which show a typical application of a power-management IC. This gives design engineers the opportunity to start their ...