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Accurate Circuit Verification of Integrated Power Switches

Excerpt from a June 2015 contributed post to Planet Analog. Neal Baltz, Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer, Cactus Semiconductor, Inc. The Planet Analog post by Paul Illegems, “Can You Easily Build Integrated Power Switches? Part 2,” offers sound design principles to limit swi
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Optimizing and Simplifying the Process: Q&A with a Systems/IC Architect on Ultra-Low-Power-Design

Following is an excerpt of an interview of Andy Kelly from Cactus Semiconductor conducted by Anne Fisher of EECatalog. Read the full post here.   By Anne Fisher, Managing Editor  What will it take for ultra-low-power designs to become more prevalent—that’s one of the questions fi
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Medical ASICs Enable Smaller, Smarter Implantable Medical Devices

This is a shared blog post which originates from our partner’s (Cirtec Medical Systems) blog. To read the full version from the original source, click here.   by: Bill Peatman, Cirtec Medical Systems Implantable medical devices keep getting smaller and smarter. Consider one of th
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Low Power LDO Design Techniques For Small Profile Applications, Part 2

A March 2015 post contributed to Planet Analog: Erik Mentze, Sr. IC Design Engineer, Cactus Semiconductor In our previous post Low Power LDO Design Techniques for Really Small Profile Applications, Part 1 , we reviewed LDO design tradeoffs using an NMOS pass transistor. This design ap
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