Microchip offers dc/dc converter reference designs for free

Complete documentation - including software, Gerber files, MATLAB models, webinars and application notes can be downloaded for free from Microchip's website, for both the Quarter brick dc/dc converter and dc/dc LLC converter reference designs. Microchip says both reference designs provide advanced digital techniques that enable designers to optimize these requirements quickly. They are applicable to a range of end products in both board mounted and external dc/dc converters, for the server, telecom, industrial, medical and aerospace markets. The reference designs are implemented using Microchip's dsPIC33F 'GS' series of digital power digital signal controllers (dscs), which are designed to provide fully digital control of the power conversion and system management functions. "Microchip's new reference designs enable our customers to develop the most advanced, fully digital dc/dc converters quickly and economically," said Sumit Mitra, vice president of Microchip's High Performance Microcontroller Division. "By using the features in the dsPIC33F 'GS' series of dscs, designers can improve the efficiency and lower the cost of their dc/dc converter products, while lowering carbon footprints and easing the burden on the world's strained power grids." Both reference designs support intelligent control of the power converter and serial system communication, include full fault protection and can be configured for operating specifications and custom features, via the programmable dsPIC33F 'GS' dsc.