Advances in Power-Management Integrated Circuits
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 4987
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Power-management integrated circuit (PMIC) design impacts power-usage efficiency in system-on-a-chip. In addition, to switch between different modes of operations such as the power-saving and full-power modes, the design of voltage regulators is undoubtedly very important. Over the past two decades, power efficiency, steady-state accuracy and transient errors, as well as recovery speed of voltage regulators were key research topics in PMIC designs. Since the size of today’s portable electronic devices are shrinking signficantly, in the coming five to six years, more attentions will be focused on size and weight reductions of the voltage-regulator circuits. This trend causes more challenges to PCB design, and thus, minimization of component count on the PCB is necessary. The external passive components such as inductors and capacitors for voltage regulators are expected to be further minimized. The ultimate goal is to integrate all required passive components to the PMIC chips to achieve local on-chip regulation, while the chip-area cost due to on-chip passive components can be further reduced.
This Special Issue, “Advances in Power-management Integrated Circuits”, is focused on bringing together innovative developments of DC-DC converters. We invite prospective authors to submit outstanding research and development results in topics that include—but are not limited to—the following:
- ultra-low-power voltage references;
- analog and digital low-dropout regulators;
- switch-inductor DC-DC converters;
- switch-capacitor DC-DC converters;
- energy-harvesting circuits;
- wireless power transfer.
We look forward to receiving your contributions. It is recommended to send a tentative title and a short summary of the manuscript to Energies Editor Ms. Carly Liu <[email protected]>.
Dr. Ka Nang Leung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Power-management integrated circuits
- Energy harvesting
- DC-DC converters
- System-on-a-chip
- Wireless power transfer
