Power Systems Design (PSD) Information to Power Your Designs

August 2017

Noise Sensitive Applications Want Ultralow Noise LDO Regulators

Amit P. Patel, Senior Design Engineer, Power Products & Steve Knoth, Senior Product Marketing Engineer – Power Products, Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Regulators are integrated circuits that step a voltage down from a higher voltage to a lower voltage without the need of an inductor. The low dropout linear regulator (LDO) is a special type of linear regulator in which the dropout voltage – the differential between the input-to-output voltages needed

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Date:

08/21/2017

Kevin Parmenter, PSD Contributor

Power Systems Design (PSD) Hosted & Moderated a PCIM Europe Podium Session - A Special Report

Opening Statements by Panel Moderator: Kevin Parmenter, PSD Contributor It was my distinct pleasure to chair a podium session at PCIM in Nuremburg Germany in May. The subject of the session was enabling next generation

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Date:

08/11/2017

Accurate Power Measurement: The Key to Energy Efficiency

Anoop Gangadharan, Yokogawa

In response to pressures to optimise energy efficiency throughout industry, a number of trends are emerging across the power landscape: · In the automotive sector, we are seeing increased electrification of the power train and the growing adoption of hybrid, electric, plug-in

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Date:

08/09/2017

Figure 1. Power rail voltages and tolerances required by ICs continue to decrease. These dynamics challenge traditional oscilloscope measurement approaches as the noise of the scope and probe system impairs the ability to make accurate measurements of small signals.

Precise Power Integrity Measurements

Joel Woodward, Strategic Oscilloscope Planner at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich

Development teams face increasing power integrity challenges. FPGAs, ASICs, and standard components semiconductor devices continue to increase in gate count. Each of the millions of gates on an integrated circuit requires current to switch. As devices can consume tens of amps and total power must be managed,

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Date:

08/09/2017

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