Secondary Side Controllers
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Secondary Side Controllers

Analog Devices’ synchronous secondary side controllers enable higher efficiency solutions, allowing higher power levels and smaller solutions size. Unlike prior solutions that used a signal transformer driven from the primary side to control the synchronous rectifier, our solutions sense the drain-to-source voltage of the MOSFET for activation. This technique not only eliminates a transformer, but allows the secondary side controller to work with ADI’s growing line of no-optocoupler products required for output voltage feedback boundary conduction mode (BCM)/critical conduction mode (CrCM) flyback converters, which makes it highly versatile for many types of applications.
Analog Devices’ synchronous secondary side controllers enable higher efficiency solutions, allowing higher power levels and smaller solutions size. Unlike prior solutions that used a signal transformer driven from the primary side to control the synchronous rectifier, our solutions sense the drain-to-source voltage of the MOSFET for activation. This technique not only eliminates a transformer, but allows the secondary side controller to work with ADI’s growing line of no-optocoupler products required for output voltage feedback boundary conduction mode (BCM)/critical conduction mode (CrCM) flyback converters, which makes it highly versatile for many types of applications.