Wires and connectors have resistance. Ohm’s law is unavoidable and dictates that a power source’s remote load voltage will be less than the source’s output voltage. The conventional solution to ...

Passive current sharing is a method of paralleling the outputs of two or more power supplies or dc-dc converters so that they share the load near equally. This approach has strong appeal, because it ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Processor-based systems place strenuous voltage regulation requirements on their power supply. In many instances, this ...