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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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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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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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