A salute to the best of power in 2006

Congratulations to the authors and thanks to you the reader for voting with your clicks for the top articles on Power Management DesignLine.

The top Power Management DesignLine articles in 2006 were:

1. Simple circuit design tutorial for PoE applications by Robert Mayell from Power Integrations.

2. Harvesting energy into lithium-ion batteries by By Erick O. Torres, Student Member, IEEE, and Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora, Senior Member, IEEE Georgia Tech Analog and Power IC Design Lab.

3. Driving high brightness LEDs with switching regulators by Chris Richardson from National Semiconductor.

4. How to chare Li-Ion batteries for portable devices more efficiently by Jinrong Qian, Texas Instruments (This was the number one rated article for 2005).

5. How to design a dimming fluorescent electronic ballast by Tom Ribarich from International Rectifier.

6. Neutral wire facts and mythology by American Power Conversion (this was the ninth most read article from 2005 and managed to move up a few slots for 2006).

7. How to simplify switch-mode DC-DC converter design by Michael Laflin from Enpirion.

8. Underutilized SEPIC outperforms the flyback topology by John Betten and Robert Kollman from Texas Instruments (this was the fourth highest ranked article from 2005).

9. How to improve linear regulator power supply ripple rejection and output noise by Qi Deng from Microchip Technology.

10. Digital power-conversion for the analog engineer by Bryan Kris from Microchip Technology.