Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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About power supplies on motherboards and all related control and logic subsystems. Explained by Istvan Nagy

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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
01:14 Types of power supplies
06:32 Testing power supplies
11:36 About power supply layout and voltage sense
17:23 Output voltage
19:57 Voltage regulator features
35:56 CPLD
39:59 Motherboard power subsystem example
43:06 Power sequencing
54:30 System management
58:03 Sequencer chip
1:00:44 FPGA
1:02:40 Initialization sequence
1:08:01 CPLD schematic page example
1:10:24 Power domains
1:18:44 x86 Power stages
1:24:39 Thermal protection and management
1:29:46 Istvan's book

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