The hearts of all data crunching in any embedded control application are the microcontrollers/microprocessors and/or FPGAs. All these architectures have been designed to provide a high level of control, connectivity, and security to reduce memory requirements, power dissipation, system board size and cost in a myriad of applications. These data hearts, however, require a supply of blood which is where the support from sophisticated power management systems combining numerous switching and linear drop-out (LDO) regulators come to the forefront when system designers have to choose their power management architectures.

This article explains how to overcome the current power management design challenges for various embedded systems. It also showcases how an online embedded developer website can ease the digital design engineer’s decision making and selection process when it comes to sourcing exceptional power management and signal path products spanning a host of embedded controllers and processors.