In the previous column of this series some of the design considerations for the traditional buck converter were presented. In this installment more complex hard switching converters used for isolated ...

The system will help BRC, an intermediate switching terminal railroad, make “improvements to our use of fuel, our environmental footprint and the overall efficiency of our locomotive assets,” ...

To design communications systems, an engineer may have to juggle several protocols running across a backplane. There are several common strategies to handling the interface for those protocols.