Electronic Design

Active Clamp Transformer Reset: High or Low Side?

The active clamp transformer reset technique offers many well-documented advantages over traditional single-ended reset techniques, including lower voltage stress on the main MOSFET, the ability to ...
Electronic Design

Active Clamp Resets Transformer in Converters

For a PDF version of this article, click here. Power converters based on the forward topology offer high efficiency and good power-handling capability in applications up to several hundred watts. The ...
EDN

Synchronous forward-converter chipset provides active clamp, deters transformer saturation

Milpitas, CA–DC/DC converters which use a transformer for isolation—as many of them do—have a potential problem: under large, sudden changes in output load or input voltage, the loop closure may not ...
EDN

Coilcraft announces new 120 watt planar transformers for active clamp forward topology

Cary, IL, USA – Coilcraft has introduced its new PoE120PL Series of high-efficiency planar transformers which are optimized for active clamp forward converters, including use in Power over Ethernet ...