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 ...

(Editor's Note: There are links to the previous parts of this series at the end, below the author's biography.) The linear voltage regulator was introduced in Part 11 of this series (link below).

So far our discussion summarizes the fact that in practical electronic systems a combination of different DC-DC converter topologies are used to achieve the overall efficiency, noise minimization, ...

A low-dropout (LDO) regulator is a simple, inexpensive way to generate a regulated output voltage from a higher-voltage input. It’s inherently low-noise because it has no switching transients, and it ...