You plug it in, your laptop charges, and that's usually the end of the story. Still, a lot of people eventually notice the same detail: a chunky cylinder sitting somewhere along the charging cable, ...

This application note presents the types of core materials used in power inductors. It also briefly discusses the core saturation, core loss, as well as the Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR). This ...

You've probably noticed it before—that small cylindrical bulge wrapping around the connector end of your HDMI cable. Most people would ignore it and use the cable for its intended purpose, but that ...

Soft magnetic materials (materials that can easily be magnetized) come in many forms. For switchmode power supply flyback transformers and chokes, we would consider gapped ferrites, Iron powder, ...

Design engineers are constantly faced with the challenge of specifying a transformer that will meet design specifications as well as cost constraints. The designer who draws up the circuit ...