Google for "IBA 48V 12V supply" and you will get the first hit from Maxim. 48V bus (telecom) or 42V bus (electric vehicle) will be very popular for IBA converters. VRM (eg: pentium 4/AMD64 power supply on the motherboard) is drawing power from the 12V bus (used to be from 5V bus in the Pentium 1 era). It is not what you exactly want. Still you may want to look at the forward converter design and adapt it to your design. http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/appnote_number/3539/ln/en "A 50 Watt Internal Bus Architecture (IBA) Power Supply". Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist