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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: Overview
Our definition of Digital Power includes digitally controlled power products that provide configuration, monitoring, and supervisory functions which extends to full loop control.

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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: News

Vishay Siliconix Releases New Triple-Output Step-Down Controller IC for One Linear and Two Synchronous Power Rails

Vishay Intertechnology has released a new high-performance triple-output step-down controller IC designed for efficient power conversion in set-top boxes, base stations, wall adapters, consumer...  >>  

AnalogicTech's New White LED Drivers Maximize Design Flexibility by Integrating LDOs

Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated has announced the AAT2847, a highly integrated four-channel White LED (WLED) driver for portable systems operating off a single-cell Li-Ion/Polymer...  >>  

Catalyst Semiconductor Launches Three New Families of Voltage Supervisors with Industry's Broadest Selection of Embedded Memory

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. launched three new families of voltage supervisors with the industry's broadest selection of embedded memory. The CAT130xx supervisor family offers 1-, 4-, 8- and...  >>  

Fairchild Semiconductor Introduces a Voltage Translator for I2C Applications

Fairchild Semiconductor provides designers with an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) voltage translator that operates over a wide voltage range (1.65V to 5.5V) to accommodate the needs of I2C...  >>  

National Semiconductor Introduces Tiny System Power Management IC with Digital Control for Portable Systems

Packaged in a very small leadless leadframe package (LLP), the LP3927 is well-suited for cellular and PCS handsets as well as other portable systems that require intelligent power management.  >>  

National Semiconductor Introduces New SIMPLE SWITCHER Controllers, Industry's First Complete MOSFET Selection Tool to Simplify Controller Designs

National Semiconductor has introduced a new family of SIMPLE SWITCHER® synchronous buck controllers and the industry’s first end-to-end MOSFET selection tool to simplify switching...  >>  

National Semiconductor Introduces SIMPLE SWITCHER Synchronous Regulators with Highest Input Voltage Range

National Semiconductor Corporation has announced the addition of two new, high-efficiency SIMPLE SWITCHER® synchronous buck regulators to its PowerWise® energy-efficient product family.  >>  

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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: Blogs

Smart Power Needs to be Smarter Than Ever

By David Bourner, Micrel Corp. Real limits in power technology occur in systems that are supporting optical fiber applications. In the optical realm, data rates and available bandwidth go up...  >>  

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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: Semiconductor Solutions

MAX8728 - Low-Cost Multiple-Output Power Supply for LCD Monitors/TVs

The MAX8728 generates all the supply rails for thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels in TVs and monitors. It includes step-down and step-up regulators, positive and... [from Maxim]  >>  

The growing sophistication of modern electronic systems is driving increasingly tighter power supply specifications and requiring more intelligent power control methods. Silicon Laboratories offers... [from Silicon Laboratories]  >>  

ispMACH 4000ZE Perfect for Low-Power, Space-Constrained Hand-Held Applications

Industry's lowest static power, and standby current as low as 10uA, in ultra-small, space-saving packages. [from Lattice Semiconductor]  >>  

Imagine implementing complete power sequencing and monitoring functions on a single chip, without using a jumble of comparators, resistors, capacitors, timers, and logic! That's what you get with... [from Lattice Semiconductor]  >>  

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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: Application Resources

Alternate Circuits for Overvoltage Protection: Tips and Tricks

Overvoltage protection (OVP) devices protect downstream circuits from overvoltage conditions that occur during load-dump events or transients. This application note discusses techniques of design...  >>  

SMH4804, SMP9210 and SMT4004 Telecom Reference Design

This Application Note presents the design of a power system required to convert the -48V bus to multiple voltages typically required by communication equipment such as network processors, DSPs, and...  >>  

Powering organic LEDs

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are poised to break out well beyond their primary applications in cell phone sub-displays over the next several years. According to DisplayBank, a South Korean...  >>  

An Introduction to Digital Control

Applying digital methods to the control of power converters, in particular board-mounted dc/dc converters, offers a rich set of possibilities from which to create new features, improved...  >>  

Managing processor power consumption

Applications dial-in processor frequency and voltage to manage power consumption  >>  

Understanding programmable power management ICs

Standardizing power management solutions across multiple designs.  >>  

Using the FMS7401 to implement a 200-kHz full-digital dimming ballast for a fluorescent lamp

This application note describes how to use the FMS7401 digital power controller to implement a digitally-dimmed lamp ballast with a power range from 32 to 57 W.  >>  

Power management IP: Coming to the rescue for nanometer design

As ICs marched down the technology path from 1.0 to 0.18 µm, SoC designers and their customers enjoyed faster and more complex IC, without a significant increase in power consumption.  >>  

Digital Power, A Manufacturer's View

Results of significant design work, published and otherwise, point to digital control as not only feasible in low cost commercial applications, but potentially becoming the dominant mode in many of...  >>  

Maxim: Controlling a Variable Voltage Power Supply Using the DS1809

This article discusses controlling a voltage regulator using a digital potentiometer with pushbutton controls, the DS1809, which give a "human interface" to the control of the voltage regulator....  >>  

Auto-track voltage sequencing simplifies simultaneous power-up and power

Auto-track sequencing is a feature available on select power modules in the Texas Instruments plug-in power solutions family. The feature is designed to simplify the amount of external circuitry...  >>  

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DIGITAL POWER MANAGEMENT: Reference Designs

Fairchild Semiconductor's Global Power Resource Center Releases Industry's First Power Supply Reference Design for 400W Ecodesigns

Fairchild has developed power supply reference design for 400W eco designs, which shows how the combination of two the Green FPS power switch (FSFR2100) and Power-SPM (FPP06R001) creates an elegant...  >>  

System Management Development Kit

System management continues to gain importance in the design of all electronic systems. Smaller process geometries drive more multi-volt devices and are more susceptible to voltage and temperature...  >>  

Si825x Single-Phase POL Reference Design

The Si825x Single-Phase POL Reference Design demonstrates the Si8252 digital power controller in a single-phase point-of-load (POL) application. The kit includes an assembled and tested evaluation...  >>  

The World's First Mixed-Signal FPGA for MicroTCA Simplifies Designs and Lowers Costs

Actel has introduced a Fusion-based MicroTCA PM reference design that meets the MicroTCA specification version 1.0 and includes an enhanced module management interface (EMMC). Core8051 and two...  >>  

MIC9131 Evaluation Board

This evaluation board provides a platform for evaluating the MIC9131 Telecom power supply controller IC in a resonant reset forward converter topology.  >>  

IR Introduces 25W to 500W Scalable Output Power Class D Audio Power Amplifier Reference Design

International Rectifier has introduced the IRAUDAMP7 reference design for Class D audio amplifiers for home theater applications, musical instruments and car entertainment.  >>  

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