Engineering consultant Frank Hertel outlines a method of measuring an inductor’s value using only an oscilloscope and a signal or function generator.

Inductors range from RF coils used in communications through switchmode inductors used in power supplies and differential and common mode inductors in EMI filters. As switchmode power supply designs ...

Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and mysterious inductor is the subject of ...

A trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR) modifies the conventional multiphase buck converter, accelerating the converter’s output current slew-rate speed capabilities to approach the fast load slew ...