Providing modern electronic devices with a diet of healthy power is not straightforward. Small AC-connected equipment often uses a capacitor-input filter following a half- or full-wave rectifier.

The consequences can be costly, ranging from production downtime to compromised equipment and even safety hazards. Certainly, capacitors are indeed responsible for 30% of power electronics failures, ...

Vicor Corp. has developed three new products, including the Picor Cool-Swap PI2211 hot swap controller and circuit breaker, Picor QuietPower QPI-21 high-density active EMI filter for dc-dc converters, ...

For AC mains-powered equipment, it’s common practice to use a modular AC line filter fitted either integral to a connector or as a chassis mount part, particularly in professional environments such as ...

In “Filter DC Voltages Outside Your Supply Rails” we saw how you can re-imagine a popular active bandpass filter topology into a building block for a form of higher-order lowpass filter that doesn’t ...