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Power supply topologies

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Power supply topologies

Postby duckula » March 28th, 2011, 6:44 pm

Texas instruments prensents a document to those who would like to know about the topologies being applied in PC power supplies. What TI said in the document are totally beyond me, though.

Here's the link to the document:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/sg/sluw001d/sluw001d.pdf
Please feel free to point out any mistakes in my messages. That will be helpful for me to make less mistakes in the future. :-)
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RE: Power supply topologies

Postby Th3_uN1Qu3 » March 29th, 2011, 12:26 am

The document presents ALL switching power supply topologies not what you may find in PC power supplies.

The only topologies used in PC power supplies are half bridge (old PSUs and current crap ones), full bridge (old high power PSUs >1kW, very rare nowadays), forward, two switch forward and active clamp forward (most, if not all actual PSUs). Also the ones with DC-DC VRMs which derive 5v and 3.3v from 12v, use the buck topology in the VRMs.
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RE: Power supply topologies

Postby duckula » March 29th, 2011, 12:52 am

Thanks for the clarification. :)
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