This article presents linear regulators and the computation of its efficiency. It also describes the advantages and other properties of a linear regulator, as well as the low drop out (LDO) regulator, ...

People have been predicting the demise of low-drop-out linear regulators in cars for many years. Yet low-drop-out (LDO) regulators continue to survive and even thrive because they're cheap and easy to ...

Editor's note: Designers at all levels of power management design will find this application article both educational for those not very familiar with these basic concepts as well as an excellent ...

Texas Instruments said that its latest linear regulator eliminates the need for a number of discrete components, resulting in around 75 percent higher efficiency and 100 percent more power density ...

The digital low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator is one of the latest innovations in the power industry, bringing telemetry and adjustability to a linear power supply in a very small footprint. The ...

Diodes has created a quiet low-drop out (LDO) linear regulator for powering ADCs, DACs, VCOs and phase-locked loops. “With up to 90dB PSRR [power supply ripple rejection], and output noise at 8μVrms, ...

For as versatile and inexpensive as switch-mode power supplies are at all kinds of different tasks, they’re not always the ideal choice for every DC-DC circuit. Although they can do almost any job in ...

For 0.13um to 0.35um Logic/Mixed-Signal, and 0.18um & 0.35um EEPROM CMOS process technologies Shanghai, CHINA, December 21, 2005 -- Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC†, ...

Electronic equipment requiring dc power must adjust the ac input to a usable level with transformers or switching transistors and use a rectifier stage to convert the ac to dc. Primary ...