Texas Instruments Debuts TPS54010 SWIFT Converter
Extending its family of Switcher with Integrated FET Technology (SWIFT™) power management integrated circuits (ICs) Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced the a high-efficiency, step-down, continuous-output, 14 A dc-dc converter with peak 18 A FETs integrated onto a single chip. The new TPS54010 gives point-of-load designers greater flexibility and faster time to market when designing 3.3 V industrial and telecom systems that use high-performance, digital signal processors (DSPs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and microprocessors.
The TPS54010 SWIFT converter provides more than 90% power efficiency and 1% output-voltage accuracy (down to 0.9 V), while integrating an array of control and supervisory features. For better noise performance, the device’s switching frequency is fixed over the entire output current range, and can be adjusted up to 700 kHz to reduce the size of passive components.
The TPS54010 is available now in volume production. The device comes in a small 28-pin HTSSOP (6.4 mm x 9.7 mm), PowerPad™ package for thermal enhancement and space savings. Pricing is $5.70 each in quantities of 1,000.
