Build a Better, Faster, and Stronger Power Supervisor

摘要

Rapid growth of FPGA- and DSP-based systems has increased the need for enhanced power supervision Ics. These systems include applications ranging from telecommunication switches and networking routers, to industrial automation and medical test equip-ment, requiring more than $500 million of power supervision Ics to be sold each year. Not only the quantity of these applications increases, the complexity of such systems grows as well. Next-generation systems contain multiple FPGAs, ASICs, DSPs, microcontrollers, and other miscellaneous Ics, each of which can require multiple and different voltage rails to function. It is common to see systems contain 8 or 10 voltage rails and up to 16 voltage rails in some applications. Certain applications have even been known to exceed 20 voltage rails.