This NetSeminar had engaging discussion, demonstrations and a look to the future in Plug-in Power from TI. Afterwards, join host and Texas Instrument Senior Applications Engineer Bill Klein, along with his guests Brian Narveson, Manager for Texas Instruments Plug-in Power Management Group and Adrian Harris, MSEE, Application Specialist for TI's Plug-In Power Group, in a previously recorded Q&A session as they answered your questions and heard what your colleagues had on their minds.

On complex boards, designers are increasingly called upon to provide more voltage rails for a wide variety of DSPs, ASICs and FPGAs. Frequently, as many as 6-10 voltages are required, creating power system design challenges for sequencing, EMI suppression and minimizing voltage deviation in the presence of current transients created by high speed digital circuits.

In this eLab we will provide applications solutions for each of these challenges and demonstrate how to minimize the amount of input and output capacitance for DC to DC converters. Techniques for doing simultaneous and sequential sequencing will be demonstrated along with techniques to reduce EMI and how to handle high speed current transients with a minimum amount of bulk output capacitance. The application examples will be based on TI's new 2nd generation PTH power modules.