Chapter 73

High voltage buck regulators provide high current, low profile power solutions for FireWire peripherals

Keith Szolusha

Abstract

The LT1766 and LT3430 regulators, which provide simple, low profile power supply solutions for FireWire peripherals, are described.

Keywords

Buck regulator

FireWire peripherals

LT1766

LT3430

Introduction

Faster data transfer requirements between a personal computer and an increasing number of peripheral devices have boosted the popularity of the IEEE 1394 High Performance Serial Bus (FireWire technology), which enables speeds up to 400Mbps. FireWire technology is finding its way into real time data transfer and data intensive devices such as DVD players, digital video recorders, zip drives and ...

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