Power supplies come in many shapes and sizes. As technologies have advanced, more integration has become commonplace when designing a power system. In a lot of instances, integration makes for a simpler design process. But there are still many situations where designing a discrete solution makes sense. For the purposes of this article, we are going to focus on DC/DC buck converters, this topology tends to be the most common. So what do I mean by integration? We're going to base our discussion on a synchronous switching controller on one end of the spectrum and a complete power module component on the other. Where you fall in the spectrum can be determined by many factors.
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