How to Easily Design Power Supplies

May 1, 2023

This article series aims to provide a simplified understanding and renewed appreciation for the art of power-supply design.

Frederik Dostal

Related To: Analog Devices

This article series is in the Power Management topic within our Series Library and the Power Supply Design topic within our TechXchange Library

Members can download this three-part mini tutorial as an eBook.

This series gives an overview of the possibilities for power-supply design. It addresses the basic and commonly used isolated and non-isolated power-supply topologies along with their advantages and disadvantages. Also covered are electromagnetic interference (EMI) and filtering considerations.

Also check out Frederik's Ideas For Design series.

About the Author

Frederik Dostal | Power-Management Technical Expert

Frederik Dostal is a power-management expert with more than 20 years of experience in this industry. After his studies of microelectronics at the University of Erlangen, Germany, he joined National Semiconductor in 2001, where he worked as a field applications engineer, gaining a lot of experience in implementing power-management solutions in customer projects. During his time at National, he also spent four years in Phoenix, Arizona (USA), working on switch-mode power supplies as an applications engineer.

In 2009, he joined Analog Devices, where since then he held a variety of positions working for the product line and European technical support, and currently brings in his broad design and application knowledge as a power-management expert. Frederik works in the ADI office in Munich, Germany.