18 August 2010

Voltage Regulation in Automotive Electronic systems

Michelle Hartsell, Product Engineer at Texas Instruments, discusses how for automotive electronics systems' designers maintaining a continuous V to critical subsystems during cold-crank, start-stop, load-dump or weak car battery conditions is extremely important. Conventional magnetically coupled coil transformer based solutions are bulky and costly.

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