Integrated circuit (IC) linear voltage regulators use an active pass element to reduce the input voltage to the regulated output voltage. Some devices use bipolar transistors and others use ...

TO-263 IC Linear Voltage Regulators are surface-mount devices designed to maintain a constant output voltage level. They are a variant of the TO-220 package, adapted for surface mounting, which makes ...

Figure 2 Bootstrapping the IC switch voltage to the input in the circuit of Figure 1 improves efficiency by about 3%. Of course, the FET actively turns on when the source goes low. But simply using ...

The humble LM317 adjustable voltage regulator is everywhere ... including driving LEDs and laser diodes. While this circuit may not be as efficient as an LED driver module or a switching solution ...

The circuit isn’t going to beat out a cheap linear regulator IC, but for the low component ... which results in a roughly 8V breakdown voltage. Essentially, this transistor is being used as ...

This circuit can regulate its output voltage down to the low limit Vref ... Please note: if the resistors R11 and Rp are too large to provide the minimal load needed by the regulator IC (up to 10 mA ...

Linear voltage regulators are key components in any power-management system that requires a stable and ripple-free power supply. A subset of linear voltage regulators is a class of circuits known as ...