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11 Qorvo 2021 3 Qorvo, Inc. For Qorvo ® Internal Use Only, Qorvo ® Confidential & Proprietary Information savings chain Qorvo offers evaluation kits and programming dongle for its ActiveCiPS™ PMIC family. For example, consider the ACT88329 PMIC and its evaluation kit. This 2.18mm x 2.58 mm device in a 30-ball WLCSP package is optimized for solid-state drive (SSD) and field- programmable gate-array (FPGA) applications but is also a good fit for video processors, FPGAs, wearables, peripherals, and microcontrollers (Figure 6). Figure 5: Another benefit of using devices in the ActiveCiPS™ PMIC family is the high level of integration, resulting in a far-smaller footprint than a functionally similar discrete implementation. (Source: Qorvo). Figure 6: ActiveCiPS TM Dongle enables you to debug your design and change the PMIC default settings on your boards on the spot. (Source: Qorvo). ACT88329 includes three DC/DC step-down converters using integrated power FETs and two LDOs. Buck1 and LDO1 can be configured as a load switches. Buck1 is a peak-current mode, fixed-frequency DC/DC step-down converter optimized for output voltage close to the input voltage. It can be set to switch at either 1.125MHz or 2.25MHz and requires only three small components for operation. Buck2 and Buck3 use asynchronous constant on-time control architecture to optimize the load transient response with smaller output capacitors. The LDOs only require small ceramic capacitors.