Power Management

Power management allows for improved management of energy expenditures, increased safety and environmental effect mitigation.

It provides a highly integrated, high-performance architecture for a broad range of application categories, such as storage computing, networking, telecommunications, automotive, and consumer electronics. Today's systems require power supply design to be integrated with the system design in order to maintain high efficiency.

Power management ICs (PMIC) are employed for voltage conversion, voltage regulation and battery management. They are essentially a system-in-a-package solution. A single PMIC can manage multiple external power sources, supply power to multiple loads, and shield against unsupported overvoltage & under-voltage conditions, over-currents, and thermal faults. Less power consumption under varied load circumstances, less space, excellent dependability and a wide input voltage are some of the major needs of today's power management systems. In a wide range of applications, these criteria are driving the demand for highly efficient, wide VIN, low quiescent current (IQ) switching regulators.