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
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