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Low Power LDO Design Techniques for Really Small Profile Applications

A February 2015 post contributed to Planet Analog: Editor’s note: Our guest blogger is Erik Mentze, Sr. IC Design Engineer, Cactus Semiconductor A key challenge to the ultra-miniaturization of electronic systems is power management. As any EE knows, when overall system sizes shrink th
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How to Leverage Enabling Chip Technologies for MIMDs

Here’s another post contributed to Planet Analog: Andrew Kelly, IC/Systems Architect, Cactus Semiconductor In a previous post, The Enabling Chip Technologies Behind Miniature Implantable Medical Devices, we discussed miniaturization technologies necessary for enabling miniature implan
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Electronic Integration Options for Implantable Medical Devices

We contributed an article to EECatalog’s Medical Electronics Design By James McDonald, Cactus Semiconductor The health benefits in our future might just rest on how hale, hardy (and cost-effective) developers, including start-ups, can make their implantable medical device proof-
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The Enabling Chip Technologies Behind Miniature Implantable Medical Devices

We contributed a post to Planet Analog: [Editor’s note: Co-authors are from Cactus Semiconductor Inc. — Andy Kelly, System and IC Architect, and James McDonald, President.] Implantable medical devices (IMDs) have an approximate size of ~15 to 50 cc. Such devices are common for u
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