Power processing is one of the most important aspects on electronic design. The power is unique for a typical system because it gives the system life. Before starting to make the project for a power supply we need to analyze some aspects: Which kind of radio/electromagnetic interference is the device going to face ? What about maintenance requirements? And finally which environment conditions (temperature, humidity, vibrations) will the device be exposed to?
1. Power Supply Parameters
Three major power supply (Figure 1) architectures are defined for any engineer:
1.Linear Regulators.
2.Pulse width modulated switching (PWM).
3.High resonant technology switching.
Inputs:
Vin(low), Vin(high) – minimum and maximum allowed input voltages, hence input voltage range.
Iin(max) – maximum average input current.
Outputs:
Vout(min), Vout(max) – minimum and maximum allowed output voltages, hence output voltage range.
Vout(abs) – maximum allowed output voltage this limit is set by load specs. Iout(rated), Iout(min) – maximum and minimum output current provided to the load. Isc – short circuit output current.
2. Protection
Current Protection:
Depending on power line, load and control circuit layout, two basic architectures are available: low-side switch and high-side switch (figure 3 e 4).
For More Details: Hardware Protection – OverVoltage and OverCurrent
