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Why 2 diodes in parallel buck converter design?

I have been looking up dc-dc buck converter designs and have question regarding the diodes. It says "5A High current Schottky diode" is it common in buck converter design to parallel ...
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Inductor and noise due to buck regulator (high frequency)

This is a generic question on the selection of inductors in buck regulators. The selection of inductors is based on mainly the ripple current and the switching frequency parameters of the buck ...
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Buck converter simulation Vout lower than expected

I am trying to design a simple buck converter in LTSpice. Here are my parameters: ...
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Buck converter efficiency Vs load current:

Can somebody explain how does the efficiency of a buck converter increases with the increasing load current?
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Buck Converter won't switch properly

I'm trying to use TI's LMR16006 Simple Switcher Buck Converter to regulate 48V down to 5V on my circuit. I used TI's WebBench tool to calculate component values for their reference design, and had a ...
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How to create a high power buck converter power supply? [closed]

I am building a device that requires a lot of energy at its peak, about 30W. The kind of supply I want to build looks like this: I understand that this is made of a controller which switches a ...
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