An Example of Intelligent Power-Supply Design

Focus:

The addition of a low-pin count microcontroller to a power supply design enables the designer to add many new programmable features.

What you’ll learn:

• How to implement a hybrid analog and digital power supply design
• How to implement hardware and software design for microcontroller management of a buck converter
• How to add programmable features to a switching regulator

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Author & Publication:

Keith Curtis, Principal Applications Engineer, Microchip Technology, Chandler, Ariz., Power Electronics Technology, Sep 01 2004

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