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Toolkit helps solve PSU design problems

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team May 27, 2004

A new web-based offline power supply toolkit enables designers to dramatically reduce design cycle times while addressing specific application requirements.

A new web-based offline power supply toolkit enables designers to dramatically reduce design cycle times while addressing specific application requirements.

The Power Supply Toolkit, found on the Fairchild website, features state-of-the-art tutorials, selection tools and design aids specifically addressing AC/DC topologies.

Fairchild offers the broadest selection of products for power supply applications.

This new toolkit is one element of Fairchild's global power resource - a complete power design source that includes Fairchild's six "centres of excellence" power systems laboratories located worldwide, and online resources that address designers' specific power application needs.

Fairchild's global power resource offers customers a unique approach to quickly overcome challenges in power conversion, distribution, management and minimisation.

Highlights include: the "Magnetic Reminder", an easy-to-navigate tutorial that serves as a primer on the practical application of magnetics in power supply design; design-oriented tools that use customer-defined system criteria to aid in the selection of Fairchild products including PWM controllers, the Fairchild Power Switch (FPS) family of products, optically isolated error amplifiers, power mosfets, and other components; and a sophisticated online tutorial that helps designers decide between flyback, forward convertor and quasiresonant topologies, evaluate basic operation information and advantages and disadvantages of each topology, and review background information for choosing optimal topology for a particular design.

"The Power Supply Toolkit is the latest example of design tools offered by Fairchild to address designers specific application and time-to-market demands", said Dr Izak Bencuya, Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Power Discrete Group.

"This new toolkit further demonstrates Fairchild's commitment to providing a complete power resource that helps customers quickly overcome power system design challenges".