In the conventional design of a forward converter, the maximum duty cycle can be extended above 50% by using a reset and clamp technique. This technique, known as RCD clamp circuitry, consists of a ...

The ISL6726 is a highly featured single-ended PWM controller intended for applications using the active clamp forward converter topology in either n- or p-channel active clamp configurations, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linear Technology has a two chip synchronous forward converter chipset with active clamp reset and Direct Flux Limit, which is designed to prevent power transformer saturation under all conditions.

Guest writer Bruce Haug, senior product marketing engineer at Linear Technology describes how a chipset can simplify the design of high-performance forward converters, making them an easy to build and ...