An integrated voltage regulator (IVR), a new category in power management chips, claims to have eased the years-long balancing act between power density and energy efficiency. Empower Semiconductor, ...

Traditional systems deliver power to AI chips by converting AC power from the grid into DC power, which then gets transformed ...

This Design Idea shows how adding one or two passive parts can reduce a hysteretic constant-on-time switched-mode voltage regulator's output voltage ripple and reduce its susceptibility to variations ...

Diodes has introduced a low dropout voltage regulator which it says reduces component count and saves space. According to Diodes, the single channel low dropout fast transient linear regulator has a ...

Endura Technologies has introduced the ET21324X, a quad-channel integrated voltage regulator intended for high-current point-of-load conversion in AI and high-performance compute platforms. The device ...

Power management of battery-powered electronic devices is becoming increasingly more important for the microelectronics industry. This white paper details the difference between low dropout (LDO) ...

Low-dropout voltage regulators (LDOs) in CMOS technology have become a cornerstone of modern integrated circuit design owing to their ability to deliver a stable output voltage even when the ...

In the promising market of the Internet of Things (IoT), System-on-Chips (SoCs) are facing exponential design complexity challenges and ultra lower power consumption requirements. The architectural ...

Among regulators, the simplest regulator circuit is for a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator whose topology is shown in Fig. 1. As a linear voltage regulator, its ...

We often use linear regulators in our designs. They are cheap and simple – you put the regulator chip itself on the board, add two capacitors, and get a voltage. Linear regulators are imperfect, of ...

The importance of low Iq with linear regulators and LDOs. A look at low-Iq voltage supervisors in portable electronics. Battery-voltage supervisors in the IoT. In my article “What is the Essence of ...