Fairchild Semiconductor Develops PWM Controllers to Improve Energy Savings at Light Load

By pur, Friday, December 4th, 2009
Category: Microcontroller, Microprocessor, Power, Semiconductor

Fairchild has developed integrated PWM controllers, like the FAN6754, which offers designers high-voltage startup to improve energy savings at light load by 25 percent when compared to alternate solutions. It also eliminates external protection circuits by incorporating over-voltage, over-current and over-temperature protection plus brownout and line-compensation functions. Other advantages of Fairchild’s PWM controllers include frequency hopping, which reduces EMI emissions by as much as 5-10 dB, and internal soft start (8 ms) to reduce voltage stress on the MOSFET at start up. Additionally, Fairchild’s PWM controllers incorporate several design features that lower the overall power consumption of notebook adapters, such as a proprietary green-mode function that provides off-time modulation to continuously decrease the switching frequency under light-load conditions. Fairchild’s PWM devices offer a host of robust, accurate protection features built-in to protect the power supply and the load from failure, all without adding external components or circuitry…

AC-DC switch mode power supply

AC/DC Switch Mode Power Supply Solution
(Picture: Fairchildsemi)


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