At the same time, continually sending out data to animate them can often use 100% of the microcontroller’s CPU power, especially if the serial bus is being bit-banged. A crash or badly timed ...

So this time, we’ll make a regulator, although we’ll still use a few Spice elements you ... I’m not suggesting your roll your own buck converter for a commercial design.

DC-DC converter chips provide a regulated DC voltage output from a different, unregulated input voltage. They are used in power management applications and incorporate several conversion technologies.

Step-down (Buck) Buck or step-down converters are used to convert a higher DC input voltage to a lower DC output voltage of the same polarity. Using a transistor as a switch, buck converters ...

Subsequently we discuss Alphacore’s design of a radiation-hardened dc-dc converter at the heart of a space power management and distribution system. Able to properly function at up to 200 Mrad of TID, ...