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Reliability in Electronics
Most of us are familiar with the concepts of reliability and MTBF at a superficial level, without considering what lies behind the figures quoted...
Power Supplies in Medical Electronics
There can be few more critical applications for power supplies in electronic equipment than in the field of medical electronics. Medical equipment...
Hi-pot Type Testing Application Note
This Application Note was written to provide insight into the one time requirement for ‘type’ testing of power supplies by the safety...
Putting the data into power supply data sheets
Why is it that seemingly similar power supplies have significantly different performance and reliability characteristics? The answer may lie...
MTBF: misquoted and misunderstood
Reliability is one of the most important factors that a designer needs to consider when specifying components or subsystems – particularly...
Eliminating snubber circuits in AC/DC power supplies through the use of silicon carbide diodes
Silicon carbide diodes have been around for some time now but have had little take-up in power supplies due to their relatively high cost. XP...
Third edition of medical safety standard impacts power supply selection
Safety is paramount wherever power supplies are used, but nowhere more so than in medical applications where even small parasitic leakage currents...
Shrinking to the challenge - how to design a smaller, more efficient AC-DC power supply
In the case of AC/DC power units, it is not dramatic technology breakthroughs that drive the trend, it is good engineering and the inventiveness...
The ever shrinking power supply
Changes in power supply design are rarely revolutionary. Rather, they are evolutionary and dependent upon a host of component and manufacturing...
IEC60601: understanding the changes from 2nd to 3rd edition
First published in 1977, the internationally accepted IEC 606011 standard has been continuously developed to help alleviate safety issues relating...
