Christophe Basso

Christophe Basso

Christophe Basso

Christophe Basso is a Technical Fellow at ON Semiconductor in Toulouse, France, where he leads an application team dedicated to developing new offline PWM controller specifications. He has originated numerous integrated circuits among which the NCP120X series has set new standards for low standby power converters.

Further to his 2008 book “Switch-Mode Power Supplies: SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs”, published by McGraw-Hill, he released in 2012 a new title with Artech House, “Designing Control Loops for Linear and Switching Power Supplies: a Tutorial Guide”. His new book is dedicated to Fast Analytical Techniques and was recently published by Wiley in the IEEE-press imprint under the title “Linear Circuit Transfer Function: An Introduction to Fast Analytical Techniques”.

Christophe has over 20 years of power supply industry experience. He holds 17 patents on power conversion and often publishes papers in conferences and trade magazines including How2Power and PET. Prior to joining ON Semiconductor in 1999, Christophe was an application engineer at Motorola Semiconductor in Toulouse. Before 1997, he worked as a power supply designer at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, for 10 years. He holds a BSEE equivalent from the Montpellier University (France) and a MSEE from the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse (France). He is an IEEE Senior Member.

Areas of interest of the author: Supply

Publications on RadioLocman by the author Christophe Basso:

  1. Transistors offer thermal protection for controller
    When a switch-mode power-supply controller, such as NCP1200, operates at a high ambient...
    21-02-2024
  2. Bipolars provide safe latch-off against opto failures
    A typical SMPS (switch-mode power supply) uses a reference voltage and an optocoupler to regulate...
    20-02-2024
  3. PWM controller drives LEDs from high-voltage lines
    Powering LEDs from a wide dc range – say, 30 to 380 V – without wasting...
    07-11-2023
  4. Transistors tame perfidious leakage inductance
    In flyback converters that use primary regulation, the loose coupling between the power secondary...
    29-09-2022
  5. Open-loop power supply delivers as much as 1 W
    For VCRs, TVs, and other equipment that requires a standby mode, you must supply power to a...
    24-05-2022
  6. Transistors Offer Overload Delay
    Although an SMPS (switch-mode power supply) can protect itself against permanent short circuits, it...
    05-06-2018
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