The Sovereign Dilemma: Who Should Control Digital Money?

Monetary sovereignty for states or individuals. Stablecoins, payment rails, crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, MiCA, GENIUS Act. Is ...
Computer WeeklyOpinion

The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control

Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t ...
Electronic Design

Microcontroller Enables Digital Control in SMPS

While DSPs are the primary controllers in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) with power-factor correction (PFC), ac generation and battery management, microcontrollers serve secondary functions for ...
EDN

How to design a digital-controlled PFC, Part 1

An AC/DC power supply with input power greater than 75 W requires power factor correction (PFC) to: Take the universal AC input (90 V to 264 V) and rectify that input to a DC voltage. Maintain the ...
Electronic Design

Power-Supply Architecture Fuses Digital and Analog Control

The digital control of switching power supplies is firmly established in everything from EV onboard chargers (OBCs) to power-supply units (PSUs) in AI data centers to renewable-energy systems that ...
EDN

Power Tips #137: Implementing LLC current-mode control on the secondary side with a digital controller

Inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) serial resonant circuits, as shown in Figure 1, can achieve both zero voltage switching on the primary side and zero current switching on the secondary side in order ...