Server-card designers have some tough choices to make (build or buy?) regarding the modules that power sections of their systems. While expertise on switching power-supply design continues to spread, the challenge of delivering very high currents to concentrated sections of a circuit board―what experts call increasing “power density”―may point to the use of pre-assembled and tested point-of-load (POL) supplies...
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