Power Supplies and Converters

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There is no secret when designing a power supply or a converter: regardless of the final use, they must provide high efficiency to meet requirements set by national and international initiatives including 80 PLUS®, ErP Lot 6 and Energy Star as well as power density, reliability and safety and all this at the appropriate price point.

To find the best solution for their applications, designers have to choose the most efficient power topology – fly-back, boost, or quasi-resonant – or the implementation – based on monolithic ICs or with discrete power switches and controllers – or even decide to use an advanced digital implementation. Whatever their choice, the right semiconductor products are key to meeting their specific design targets.

ST broad product portfolio includes highly-integrated AC-DC converters and controllers, monolithic DC-DC converters, silicon and silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs and rectifiers, IGBTs and protection ICs, linear voltage regulators, battery management ICs - including wireless battery charger ICs – specifically designed digital controllers and STM32 microcontrollers. We also provide a comprehensive range of hardware and software evaluation and development tools including our eDesignSuite that helps engineers design high efficiency power supplies and converters.

AC-DC Converters

In a typical AC-DC switch mode power supply (SMPS), the AC mains is rectified and filtered to feed a power factor...

Many appliances and equipment require the availability of an auxiliary power source (SMPS) that works separately from the...

A DC-DC switching converter is used to locally supply any component or part of a system with the desired DC voltage and...

Digital power is any energy conversion system where digital control techniques apply to power products, and...

In an industrial, commercial or manufacturing environment lowest possible down time of any equipment is the number one...

Stringent international standards require that Server and Telecom power supplies provide higher efficiency and power density...

We are using smartphones and tablets so intensively that many need to top up their batteries several times – and quickly – every day...

Publications and Collaterals

Flyers

	Description	Version	Size
	eDesignSuite-The smart way to design your application	1.0	842 KB

Brochures

	Description	Version	Size
	Brochure Power management guide	09.2017	3 MB