Design Tips

    August 2020
    Silent Switcher 2 Regulator for SoC, Microprocessor Apps

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    Figure 1. VIN = 14 V, VOUT = 1 V, 20 A. fSW = 400 kHz.

    Power budgets continually rise for advanced SoC (system on chip) solutions used in industrial and automotive systems. Each successive SoC generation adds power hungry devices and increases data processing speed. These devices require reliable power, including 0.8 V for cores, 1.2 V, and 1.1 V for DDR3 and LPDDR4, an
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    08/31/2020
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