The design of a closed-loop switch-mode power supply creates a path between the variable a designer wants to monitor and the control pin of the designer's converter. This control pin can be the peak ...

The sixth and final phase of uncleared margin rules arrives in September, with more than 700 investment management firms affected As firms prepare to meet the requirements applying to margin on OTC ...

The final stage, phase 6, of the uncleared margin rules came into force on 1 September 2022 and are expected to affect more buy-side firms. Regulators have been phasing in uncleared margin rules since ...

In operational amplifier stability, one rule of thumb is to allow 45 degrees of phase margin. Other design guidelines state that 60 degrees is best; still others say that 30 degrees is sufficient.

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Type II compensators are widely used in the control loops for power converters. However, there are cases where the ...