Smarter Power supplies arrive

Mar 21, 2006 1 Replies

It is good to the the venerable LM317, has some smarter offspring



These new devices allow fine software control of Vcc, using either a small uC, or maybe the FPGA itself. ( Probably safer with a small uC )



So you can scale Vcc to suit frequency, or drop into the config-hold regions, or margin test your designs.....



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-jg



Thanks Jim ... definately useful.

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