As the number of photovoltaic systems and electric vehicles increases, so does the demand for intelligent, high-power and high-efficiency battery chargers. Most systems on the market today use either ...

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Battery-charger-control designers face a fundamental choice: to use a part from the rich selection of dedicated charge-control ICs available from many vendors or to use a programmable microcontroller.