Whitepaper – An Introduction to Digital Control of Switching Power Converters

Applying digital methods to the control of power converters, in particular board-mounted dc/dc converters, offers a rich set of possibilities from which to create new features, improved performance, and much greater product flexibility, and all at lower cost. Power converter operating characteristics dictated by a stored program, rather than the parameters of a set of discrete components, can mean tremendous cost and space savings as well as capacity for real time adaptation of those characteristics, greater sophistication in control algorithms and the ability to generate, store and recall valuable real-time functional data.