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With the advent of more and more DIYers, people have even started to create their own buck/boost drivers, either by hand-soldering it all together in a bundle, etching their own PCB, or using something like DorkBot to fab the board and then just populating it from their design specs.
Finding the right buck and/or boost ICs isn't that hard, most of the big PM manufacturers like Linear, TI, ON, they all have sections specifically for buck and/or boost ICs.
But... what about multimode drivers? What kinds of ICs are used in those? The trouble I am having is just trying to get a conceptual idea of *how* lightly tapping the power button will give a different input to the IC that makes it switch modes. And how does one program modes?
Anyone? I'd love to have a new idea to toy around with (would also make designing drivers for interesting projects much easier).
So does anyone know of any simple, multi-mode capable ICs? Or at least a way so that you can build separate drivers for different tasks, and have one IC that chooses which driver the input is linked to?
Finding the right buck and/or boost ICs isn't that hard, most of the big PM manufacturers like Linear, TI, ON, they all have sections specifically for buck and/or boost ICs.
But... what about multimode drivers? What kinds of ICs are used in those? The trouble I am having is just trying to get a conceptual idea of *how* lightly tapping the power button will give a different input to the IC that makes it switch modes. And how does one program modes?
Anyone? I'd love to have a new idea to toy around with (would also make designing drivers for interesting projects much easier).
So does anyone know of any simple, multi-mode capable ICs? Or at least a way so that you can build separate drivers for different tasks, and have one IC that chooses which driver the input is linked to?
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