Modular technology allows edge server installations to break free from the tight thermal constraints of air-conditioned server rooms. They can now be installed anywhere where massive data throughput with lowest possible latencies is required.
Until now, manufacturers of server, networking and storage technologies developed standardized rack solutions for their systems, with active ventilation concepts and powerful air-conditioning technology to control the thermal management of the racks and the air-conditioning in the server rooms. However, such an approach is no longer a good fit for the edge server technology of today.
Stricter guidelines imposed by version 3 of the IEC standard for harmonic current emissions push designers to embrace power-factor-correction methodologies.
The flyback topology is a versatile, widely used, switched-mode power-supply design with some interesting characteristics that brings performance and BOM advantages to many applications...
