Power Management ICs - A Top-down Design Approach

Book excerpt: The slides in this book introduce and discuss the demands of emerging high-performance power-management integrated circuits (ICs) and present circuit-design techniques aimed at addressing them, especially within the context of portable microelectronics. The material adopts a top-down design approach, much like in an industry setting but with an educational mindset, rigorously surveying, analyzing, and evaluating basic concepts and the state of the art in power management ICs (e.g., switching converters, linear regulators, voltage references, chargers, monitors, and application-specific dynamically adaptive supplies). Supportive, present-day research is also included and evaluated throughout.