CARS.COM — The National Insurance Crime Bureau is clearing the air on the latest trend in car-component theft: catalytic converters. The crime-stats crunchers at Illinois-based NICB examined ...

The surface-mount LSM2 and through-hole LSN2 nonisolated, point-of-load dc/dc converters require no heat sinks or external filter components. These devices feature 0.75 to 5V user-selectable outputs ...

ST’s VIPER11B voltage converter integrates an 800-V avalanche-rugged MOSFET to power smart home and lighting applications up to 8 W.

Part 2 covers converter stresses and plots functions for buck, boost, and buck-boost topologies. Active component losses include those related to on-resistance of the power switch and diode rectifier.