Electronic Design

Test Saturation Voltage to Achieve High Efficiency

Build a low-cost saturation tester to measure the saturation voltage of switching transistors accurately in the presence of high switching voltages or noise. Efficiency is the name of the game in the ...
EDN

Bipolar junction transistors offer fast switching, low saturation voltage

San Jose, Calif. — Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced 3-A and 5-A bipolar junction transistors (BJT) with ultra-fast switching and low saturation voltage that contribute to energy-savings in ...
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1200V IGBTs with lowest saturation voltage VCE(sat)

New S-series 1200V IGBTs from STMicroelectronics are optimized for the lowest combined conduction and turn-off losses at switching frequencies up to 8kHz, to increase the power-conversion efficiency ...
EDN

Provide a negative bias voltage to low-voltage amplifiers to improve their near-zero-volt performance

Low voltage amplifiers are often used in single-supply voltage circuits and make use of the rail-to-rail output feature these amplifiers have. While the output of these amplifiers can swing close to ...
Electronic Design

Test Saturation Voltage to Achieve High Efficiency #2

Build a low-cost saturation tester to measure the saturationvoltage of switching transistors accurately in the presence ofhigh switching voltages or noise. In switch-mode power supplies, saturation ...