New Technology Provides Low Profile, High Current Inductor

摘要

Today's trend in personal electronics is to provide smaller, slimmer packages with more features and longer battery life. To improve performance and efficiency, semi-conductors are operated at lower voltages hut place higher current demands on power supplies and internal components. DC/DC converters are being designed with switching frequencies above 500kHz to reduce component size and increase efficiency but are constrained by the physical size and loss of the inductive component. A new, patent pending, technology has been developed by Vishay that provides an efficient, high current, low profile surface mount inductor that meets the needs of today's DC/DC converters as well as those of tomorrow.