Texas Instruments has introduced the TPS62912 and TPS62913, a new family of low-noise DC/DC switching regulators that offers low noise of 20 µVRMS for frequencies ranging from 100 Hz to 100 kHz and an ultra-low output-voltage ripple of 10 µVRMS.
The new low-noise DC/DC switching regulators allow the designers to remove one or more low-dropout regulators (LDOs) from their designs and also to reduce power losses by up to 76% (1.8 W in analog front-end (AFE) designs and 1.5 W in designs using a wideband analog-to-digital converter), the designs that typically use a single LDO can save 36% of PCB space.
The new devices use integrated ferrite-bead compensation for effectively filtering high-frequency noise, reducing the power supply output voltage ripple by approximately 30 dB, and also for simplifying the power supply design.
With a 20% and 15% increase in efficiency, respectively the TPS62912 and TPS62913 provide rails with low noise and low ripple to preserve signal accuracy and integrity with a power-supply rejection ratio of 65 dB at up to 100 kHz. With an output-voltage error of less than 1%, the new buck converter family provides high output voltage accuracy. The 2-A TPS62912 and 3-A TPS62913 are available for purchase in a 2-mm-by-2-mm, 10-pin quad flat no-lead (QFN) package. Pricing starts at US$1.06 and US$1.16 respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.
