Puzzler 9

Take a break from your daily routine and test your power supply design knowledge by trying your hand at the crossword puzzle below.

ACROSS

  1. Topology for high current
  2. Two terminal regulator
  3. Charger profile
  4. Noise, but you can't LISN for it
  5. AC-DC conversion technology, not efficient
  6. Information from the front
  7. Inductance, not coupled
  8. Dissipative capacitor parasitic
  9. 1000s inverted time
  10. Limits voltage spike after switching
  11. Secondary source of supression
  12. Unwanted, but best not allowed to leave
  13. Specified by RDS(ON)
  14. 802.3af
  15. PN, connected
  16. TinySwitch® operating principle
  17. Blocks DC
  18. Efficient and simple SMPS topology
  19. The best control scheme for multiple output designs

DOWN

  1. Turns AC to DC
  2. What the doe's star seeks
  3. Power reservoir
  4. Ground for the low side
  5. A powerful Scottish gentleman
  6. A 50% enthusiastic goodbye
  7. Reduces electrostatic coupling in transformers
  8. An AC path from primary to secondary
  1. The original high-voltage integrated switcher IC
  2. _________ values sum in series
  3. A Top regulation method
  4. External Power Supply
  5. Communicates with itself at a required distance
  6. Electron sink
  7. Nikola's magnetic flux
  8. Converter type with high switching frequency at no load

Back to puzzlers list