Questions tagged [buck-boost]
A non-isolated DC-DC converter topology
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Boost mode doesn’t work properly for a syncronous non-inverting buck-boost converter
I posted a related question 5 days ago. I fixed the capacitor position the same as the datasheet recommendation of the gate driver by making it connect Vb with Vs, also the one who answered my ...
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Using alkaline C cells to drive a pair of solenoids
I am working on a walking robot for my class in mechanical engineering. I have two 12 VDC solenoids that need to be actuated. Their resistance is 4 ohm so basically will require 6 amps @ 12V for the ...
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Charging IC for a 1S or 3S Li-ion battery
I have quite specific problem; I'm designing a PCB for my robot, that is used the main board for controlling motors, gathering data from sensors, etc.
The whole PCB will be designed as a Raspberry Pi ...
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TI synchronous buck converter went up in smoke, where do i start?
I’m using a TPSM63606RDLR power module device. Everything looked perfect for multiple days, but yesterday it started smoking. I did move the PCB and there are some LED strips connected externally to ...
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FET turn-on time in DC-DC converter
I am selecting a GaN FET for a buck-boost DC-DC converter application. The Vgs of the part I'm looking at combined with the gate charge and gate resistance lets me switch the FET on in about 5.3 ns. ...
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Boost Current and Limit Voltage
I have a radar gun which has a serial interface. The gun reports the velocity out to the serial port. I want to attach a microcontroller (ESP8266/ESP32) to the serial interface and forward the ...
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Forward biasing of diode bridge in a discontinuous mode operation of a three phase buck-boost derived power factor corrected converter
In this paper, they said that during mode 1 the diode bridge is forward biased because the output capacitor voltage is greater than peak line to line voltage but during mode 2 they are forward biased. ...
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Peak current limit and valley current limit of inverting buck-boost converter
I am trying to understand, in a inverting buck-boost converter, why the peak current in the inductor should be smaller than the high-side current limit and valley current in the inductor should be ...
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BD8306MUV and idle current
I need to generate 3.3 V from a 3.6 V battery to power a sensor. I choose the Rohm buck-boost converter BD8306MUV for that, but I discovered that it consumes nearly 5 mA of current in idle mode ...
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Can you power 2 voltage rails simultaneously using a buck-boost converter?
I am designing a custom PCB and want to power 2 rails: a 3.3V and 5V rail, with a single 250mAh LiPo battery (3.7V) and need the 5V rail to have as stable a voltage as possible.
I understand that a ...
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Low power circuit design for powering an e-paper display
This is a follow up to my last question on Low power circuit design for turning an LDO on/off at specific voltage levels, where I wanted to find a low power way to turn an LDO on/off at specific ...
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Boost converter gets hot
I'm building a LCD backlight power supply boosting 5 V to 12 V.
The max current draw from the panel is 12 V 0.4 A.
I am using LMR60214. But the IC is getting hot to touch at full brightness.
I am ...
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Buzzing ringing in boost converter regulator when using PWM in lower duty cycle
I designed a boost converter using TI LMR62014XMF, to convert 5 V to 12 V for using as backlight source in my LVDS display adapter.
The LCD display panel needs 12 V at 0.5 A max for backlight driving.
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Why is the output voltage (without capacitor) of a boost converter seen as a perfect square wave?
I am trying to learn about boost converters, but I don't understand why the images of the voltage output always seems to be like a square wave PWM. I understand that assuming perfect inductors, the ...
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What technical progress enabled high-efficiency charge pumps?
I found a lot of information on the internet, most of which told me that charge pumps are only suitable for low-power scenarios and they are not very efficient.
Charging ICs based on the charge pump ...
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