For example, to convert the DC power supply to high-frequency AC, use a transformer - small, light, and cheap due to the high frequency - to change the voltage, and rectify back to DC. The introduction of power semiconductors and integrated circuits made it economically viable to use techniques as described below. These were relatively inefficient and expensive procedures used only when there was no alternative, as to power a car radio (which then used thermionic valves/tubes requiring much higher voltages than available from a 6 or 12 V car battery). For higher power an electric motor was used to drive a generator of the desired voltage (sometimes combined into a single 'dynamotor' unit, a motor and generator combined into one unit, with one winding driving the motor and the other generating the output voltage). Before the development of power semiconductors and allied technologies, one way to convert the voltage of a DC supply to a higher voltage, for low-power applications, was to convert it to AC by using a vibrator, followed by a step-up transformer and rectifier.
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