Sometimes I feel that the success that IC vendors have had at packing amazingly good performance and useful features into power-supply regulator ICs — whether low dropout (LDO) or a switcher — has ...

Every design begins with some assumptions, because you have to start somewhere. But as the design moves along, it’s often important and necessary to double-check if those assumptions are actually ...

A comprehensive understanding of switching regulator noise is important when designing a low noise switching regulator, says Leo Liu. Generally, traditional switching regulators are considered noisy ...

More tutorial nuggets courtesy of Greg Waterfall of Texas Instruments, one of our experts for Planet Analog’s Ask the Experts session on Wednesday, April 23 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. PSR vs. noise in LDOs ...

LDOs can offer the low noise and PSRR performance to be used in wide voltage range applications such as in test and measurement systems, write Amit Patel and Steve Knoth Linear Regulators are ...

Linear voltage regulators are key components in any power-management system that requires a stable and ripple-free power supply. A subset of linear voltage regulators is a class of circuits known as ...

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 ...