Session 10 overview: DC-DC power conversion

Nowadays, power management is an essential part of the overall system design of modern highly integrated applications. Not only are strict demands placed on overall power consumption, but sophisticated control of supplies is essential for power dissipation in individual blocks. The design of DC-DC converters in these advanced power management systems is very challenging and is critical to achieving optimal operating performance as well as the overall power efficiency of the systems. These DC-DC converters are not only needed to provide a constant regulated voltage to power up individual building blocks, they also need to provide, in some cases, multiple output voltages for the complex systems or adaptive output voltages for efficiency and performance improvement. All of these goals need to be met with minimum system cost and external components. This session presents different approaches to address these issues.