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Distributed Power Delivery with Ultra-Small LDO Regulators

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The quality of the power supply in portable electronic systems can be efficiently addressed with POL distributed power delivery [191, 310], which requires the on-chip integration of multiple power supplies.

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  1. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Inna P.-Vaisband

  2. Qualcomm Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA

    Renatas Jakushokas

  3. Qualcomm Corporation, San Marcos, CA, USA

    Mikhail Popovich

  4. Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, ON, USA

    Andrey V. Mezhiba

  5. University of South Florida, Tampa, NY, USA

    Selçuk Köse

  6. University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

    Eby G. Friedman

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P.-Vaisband, I., Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A.V., Köse, S., Friedman, E.G. (2016). Distributed Power Delivery with Ultra-Small LDO Regulators. In: On-Chip Power Delivery and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29395-0_18

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