Alan Elbanhawy is a principal applications engineer at MaxLinear. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with over 40 years of experience in power supply design and R&D management. Alan holds eighteen patents and has applications for four more. He has authored over 60 papers on power delivery that have been translated to five languages for international conferences and technical publications.
Getting a few more percentage points of efficiency from a DC/DC supply is challenging, but a two-stage converter with a dynamically optimised intermediate bus voltage offers a solu
