In recent decades the demands of higher speed and lower power have given us successive ... thresholds as a percentage of supply voltage, which with a 5V supply puts the logic 1 threshold of ...

There will also be a standby 5V supply using another small transformer, and a “power good” circuit to tell the motherboard that the PSU is ready and to activate the supply on an external input.

A computer power supply converts AC into multiple DC voltages. For example, 12 volts is commonly used for drives, while 3.3v and 5v are used by the chips and other motherboard components.

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Based on UMC 0.18um 3.3v/1.8v Logic Process, current design of Power Regulator is to provide the 3.3v voltage output regulated from a 5v input supply. Moreover, the design is resilient against any ...