The new quarter-brick isolated DC-DC converter evaluation board features a reference design that demonstrates a viable 36 to 75 V input half-bridge converter for power module or embedded power applications.

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) (Santa Clara, CA) and Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB) (Austin, TX) have announced a new quarter-brick isolated DC-DC converter evaluation board and reference design to help power supply designers get higher power density in networking, communications and high-end server applications. Features include:

• An LM5035C half-bridge PWM controller that enables industry leading power density and performance advantages for small form factor DC-DC converters by integrating the bias regulator, gate drivers and synchronous rectifier controls into a single IC.A
• A reference design that demonstrates a viable 36 to 75 V input half-bridge converter for power module or embedded power applications.
• The design survives input transients up to 100 V as commonly required in communications equipment.
• Hiccup-mode fault protection.

For more information visit www.national.com and www.silabs.com