Application notes
Application notes, technical articles, handbooks and data sheets from component and instrument makers, and an industry association’s guideline (JEITA’s on lithium-ion cells): the modules and the gotcha pages cite them, the bench pages and the gotchas most of all.
Every resource listed here is in English.
| Resource | Type | Level | Tags | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding Buck Power Stages in Switchmode Power Supplies (SLVA057) Steady-state and small-signal analysis of the buck power stage in CCM and DCM, with component requirements. | Application note | Intermediate | buck, ccm-dcm, small-signal | 2026-09-23 |
| Understanding Boost Power Stages in Switchmode Power Supplies (SLVA061) The boost counterpart: steady-state and small-signal analysis in CCM and DCM. | Application note | Intermediate | boost, ccm-dcm, small-signal, rhp-zero | 2026-09-23 |
| Understanding Inverting Buck-Boost Power Stages in Switch Mode Power Supplies (SLVA059) The inverting buck-boost power stage analysed the same way. | Application note | Intermediate | buck-boost, ccm-dcm, small-signal, rhp-zero | 2026-09-23 |
| Basic Calculation of a Buck Converter's Power Stage (SLVA477) A compact CCM design-calculation checklist: duty ratio, inductor ripple, capacitors. | Application note | Introductory | buck, ripple, design | 2026-09-23 |
| Basic Calculation of a Boost Converter's Power Stage (SLVA372) The boost version of the same checklist. | Application note | Introductory | boost, ripple, design | 2026-09-23 |
| Output Ripple Voltage for Buck Switching Regulator (SLVA630A) Buck output ripple with the capacitor's charge, series resistance (ESR) and series inductance (ESL) taken into account. | Application note | Intermediate | passives-real, esr, ripple, buck | 2026-09-23 |
| Sensor Design for Inductive Sensing Applications Using LDC (SNOA930C) Written for inductive sensing; its explanation of the capacitance between turns, the self-resonant frequency and how to measure it applies to any wound inductor. | Application note | Intermediate | passives-real, self-resonance, inductors | 2026-09-23 |
| Fundamentals of MOSFET and IGBT Gate Driver Circuits (SLUA618A) MOSFET switching behaviour, gate charge and gate-drive power, and practical gate-drive circuits. | Application note | Intermediate | semiconductors, gate-drive | 2026-09-23 |
| Designing RC snubbers (AN11160) How to find a ringing node's parasitic capacitance and inductance with an added capacitor, then choose the RC snubber's capacitor and its resistor from a damping factor, trading peak voltage against loss. | Application note | Intermediate | snubbers, ringing, measurement | 2026-09-24 |
| Impedance Measurement Handbook (5950-3000) How LCR meters and impedance analyzers measure, why a component's measured value depends on the test frequency and signal, and how to connect and compensate the test fixture. | Application note | Intermediate | measurement, impedance, lcr-meter | 2026-09-24 |
| Low Level Measurements Handbook, 7th edition Precision dc measurements, among them low resistances with the four-wire (Kelvin) method, which keeps the test leads' resistance out of the reading. | Application note | Intermediate | measurement, resistance, four-wire | 2026-09-24 |
| AN-136: PCB Layout Considerations for Non-Isolated Switching Power Supplies The hot loop, the layer stack and the switch node of a buck converter's board, step by step. | Application note | Intermediate | layout, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| AN-1149 Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies (SNVA021C) Current loops, ground planes, the feedback trace and the input capacitor, in a short note. | Application note | Introductory | layout, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Power MOSFET Basics: Understanding Gate Charge and Using it to Assess Switching Performance (AN608A) The gate-charge curve read interval by interval, and what each charge says about the switching times. | Application note | Introductory | gate-drive, semiconductors, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Bootstrap Circuitry Selection for Half-Bridge Configurations (SLUA887A) Choosing the bootstrap capacitor, diode and resistor of a half-bridge driver, and what goes wrong when they are too small. | Application note | Intermediate | gate-drive, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| AN-1144: Measuring Output Ripple and Switching Transients in Switching Regulators How a probe's ground lead exaggerates switching transients, and the tip-and-barrel method for output ripple. | Application note | Introductory | probes, measurement, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Understanding Oscilloscope Frequency Response and Its Effect on Rise-Time Accuracy (5988-8008) Why the rise time an oscilloscope shows depends on the shape of its frequency response, not on its bandwidth alone. | Application note | Intermediate | probes, measurement, bench | 2026-09-25 |
| Semiconductor and IC Package Thermal Metrics (SPRA953) What the thermal resistances and characterization parameters on a data sheet mean, how they are measured, and how they are misused. | Application note | Intermediate | thermal, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Understanding Thermal Dissipation and Design of a Heatsink (SLVA462) The thermal path from a junction to the air, and sizing a heat sink from it. | Application note | Introductory | thermal, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Power MOSFET Tutorial (APT-0403) A power MOSFET's structure, its data sheet's parameters and how they change with temperature. | Application note | Introductory | thermal, semiconductors, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Managing Inrush Current (SLVA670A) Where inrush current comes from when a load's capacitance is switched on, and how a slower voltage rise reduces it. | Application note | Introductory | protection, inrush, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Fuseology: Fuse Facts and Fuse Selection Guide How a fuse's ratings are defined, and what its current, its pulses and its ambient temperature do to it. | Application note | Introductory | protection, fuse, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Reverse Current/Battery Protection Circuits (SLVA139) Circuits that protect a load against a battery connected backwards, starting from a diode in series with the battery. | Application note | Introductory | protection, battery, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Application Guide How an aluminum electrolytic capacitor's capacitance, ESR and life change with temperature, ripple current and voltage. | Application note | Intermediate | capacitors, temperature, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| A Guide to the Safe Use of Lithium-Ion Secondary Cells in Notebook-type Personal Computers and Tablet Terminals Why a lithium-ion cell's charging is limited in temperature, voltage and current, and what a charger must do outside those limits. | Application note | Intermediate | battery, temperature, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Snubbing the flyback converter (SSZTCV6) How a flyback's leakage inductance drives the switch above the reflected voltage, and how the clamp voltage trades against the clamp's loss. | Technical article | Intermediate | snubbers, clamps, flyback, leakage | 2026-09-24 |
| Five steps to a great PCB layout for a step-down converter (SLYT614) Five steps to a step-down converter's board, with the input capacitor as its most important component. | Technical article | Introductory | layout, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| System Trade-offs for High- and Low-side Current Measurements (SSZTA51) A short comparison of placing the shunt in the ground return or on the supply side. | Technical article | Introductory | current-sensing, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Optimize High-Current Sensing Accuracy by Improving Pad Layout of Low-Value Shunt Resistors (Analog Dialogue 46-06) How the solder of a low-value shunt enters the reading, and the four-pad layout that keeps it out. | Technical article | Introductory | current-sensing, layout, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| How is bandwidth related to rise time for oscilloscopes? (Tektronix FAQ) The 0.35 rule between an oscilloscope's bandwidth and its rise time, and where it holds. | Technical article | Introductory | probes, measurement, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or Why Your 4.7 µF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33 µF Capacitor How a class-2 ceramic capacitor's capacitance changes with temperature and with its dc voltage, and why its code tells only the first. | Technical article | Introductory | capacitors, temperature, bench | 2026-09-24 |
| Floating-Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations Why 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 is not 0.3 in a computer, why each operation can add a rounding error of up to one part in 2**53, and why results are compared within a tolerance, not for equality. | Technical article | Introductory | python, numerics | 2026-09-25 |
| bq25570 Nano Power Boost Charger and Buck Converter for Energy Harvester Powered Applications A harvesting charger that tracks the maximum power point by sampling a fraction of the source's open-circuit voltage. | Data sheet | Intermediate | harvesting, mppt, charger | 2026-09-24 |
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