Switching Regulator integrates MOSFETs to minimize EMI.
Press Release Summary:
Housed in 2 x 2 mm package, 3.3 V Model MAX15040 operates from fixed 1 MHz switching frequency. Synchronous DC-DC step-down regulator offers efficiencies up to 94% at full load current of 4 A, minimizing power loss in applications such as telecom, networking, and server equipment. Providing ±1% output voltage accuracy, regulator is fully specified over -40 to +85°C temperature range. Device includes adjustable soft-start and enable input/power-good indicator for power sequencing.
Original Press Release:
Smallest 4A Switching Regulator Simplifies Designs and Improves Reliability
Maxim's highly efficient, 3.3V synchronous DC-DC regulator integrates MOSFETs in a 2mm x 2mm package to save space, reduce BOM cost, and minimize EMI.
SUNNYVALE, CA -- Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX15040, a low-voltage (2.4V to 3.6V), synchronous switching regulator in a 2mm x 2mm wafer-level package (WLP). This miniature step-down regulator integrates MOSFETs to simplify design, minimize EMI, improve reliability, and save board space. The MAX15040 operates from a fixed 1MHz switching frequency to further reduce total solution size, as it allows all-ceramic-capacitor designs. Offering efficiencies up to 94% at full load current (4A), this point-of-load regulator minimizes power loss in applications such as telecom, networking, and server equipment.
Other features include an enable input and power-good indicator for power sequencing, adjustable soft-start for controlled turn on, and the ability to safely start up into a prebiased output.
The MAX15040 provides ±1% output-voltage accuracy over temperature and is fully specified over the -40 degrees Celsius to +85 degrees Celsius extended temperature range. Prices start at $2.17 (1000-up, FOB USA).
Maxim Integrated Products is a publicly traded company that designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance semiconductor products. The Company was founded over 25 years ago with the mission to deliver innovative analog and mixed-signal engineering solutions that add value to its customers' products. To date, it has developed over 6400 products serving the industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets.
Maxim reported revenue of approximately $2.0 billion for fiscal 2010. A Fortune 1000 company, Maxim is included in the Nasdaq 100, the Russell 1000, and the MSCI USA indices. For more information, go to www.maxim-ic.com.
DATA SHEET: A Data Sheet for this product is available on the web.
http://www.maxim-ic.com/MAX15040
