 Hi, I'm NPS. Hi, I'm NPS, brought to you by DigiKey. This week is from NPS. Lady Aida, what is the new product introduction of the week this week? Glad you asked. This is NPS, which we've not done yet. So I'm psyched. I always love it when we have a new company to feature. NPS makes the MPM 363510 chip DCDC module, which we'll talk about. NPS stands for monolithic power systems, which is, you might be wondering, wow, like a monolith? And the answer is, yes, they actually make things that are kind of rectangular and black. And when you touch them, your designs get much, much better, like you evolve, I guess. Duh-duh. OK, so NPS, they make a lot of stuff. One of the things that I love them for is their step-down converter modules. And these are all in one kind of, they look like chip. They're actually inside. There's an inductor and a chip and a couple passives. And they make it really, really easy for you to do a power supply that's very compact. So the 3510, when I saw this show up on digikey.com. I got excited because actually I was just a couple of days ago looking for a chip like this. So this is a module that can take 4.5 to 3.36 volts, so like a fairly high voltage input, and then buck it down to as little as 0.8 volts to 36 volts at 1.2 amp continuous load current. And because DC-DC, there's no heatsink required, it's very compact. And the inductor, as I said, is built in, which makes it so tiny and small and easy to use, because all you need is a couple passive components. So normally, on a buck converter, you would need, there would be maybe a diode, or maybe you would be driving a transistor, or this and that, or you need a feed forward capacitor. All that stuff is in care for you. So all you need is capacitive input, capacitor on the output, and then a resistor divider that tells it, what voltage you want in the output. I originally saw this series of chips on the Nano-Evry from Arduino. I was like, what is that power supply that they've got there? So this board needs to be very compact, very efficient, and they want a lot of current from their DC-DC supply. So they used an MPM 3610, which is like the earlier version of the 3510, but they're very similar. We also made a breakout for the 3610. Like you said, give it VIN up to, this one does 21 volts, the 3510 does up to 36 volts. And you see how compact it is. It's just a resistor divider, there's one extra pull-up resistor, and then two big bulk capacitors on the input and output, and you're pretty much ready to go, 1.2 amps output. You can check our design files, they're up on GitHub if you want to use them. But I also noticed Digikey has a really nice new EDA footprint and 3D model page for almost every product. So on the product page, scroll down, look for it says EDA models, click on it. And this provided through Ultra Librarian and a couple other companies, you can export for whatever your CAD software is. So I use Eagle CAD, but they also have CAD or CAD, Altium, et cetera, et cetera. The footprint, the symbol, and a 3D model, which is pretty cool because then you can use it, if you're, especially if you're making something really small, you're probably going to have to make sure that the height and size of your module doesn't interfere with any other component. Like I said, the layout is super simple. You can do it on a two layer design, fairly easy and a circuit board. I would go with a two ounce copper if you can. I think I do for the little breakouts just because it's a fair amount of current. You just have to provide power in and then ground. There's sometimes a couple other extra pins like PG for power good, if you wanna have external LED, or I think there's also maybe a pin, you can change the mode for the buck converter if you wanna go from like a high current load to a low current mode for low quiescent usage. And one of the things that, because this is a, it's all integrated, it's really tiny, and I'll show in the overhead how small it is. It's fairly small and very thin. So the way they do that is of course, they have a very small inductor, because usually the inductor is like the biggest part of your buck or boost converter, not the chip. The chip is trivial. In size, it's the inductor that has to be big. So to make it big, they have to have a very high frequency for the PWM runway, which is I think like one ish, megahertz, maybe up to one and a half megahertz, maybe two megahertz. So the higher the frequency, the smaller the inductor, the smaller the inductance you need for the rated current. However, that also does affect efficiency. So you'll note that it's not bad efficiency. You can get fairly good over 90% efficiency, but you're not gonna get like the absolute highest you can get if you're willing to go down to like 400 kilohertz or 500 kilohertz or 750 on some chips I've seen and have a really big inductor. That's the trade-off. Personally, I've had no issue with this trade-off, especially if you're not running off a battery or if your battery is big enough that the efficiency isn't going to affect you highly. So for that use case, I don't have an issue, but just be aware like it is a higher frequency chip. So the efficiency won't be as high. There's a wide family available of up to like 60 amp modules from different voltage input ranges. The bigger the module, sorry, the higher the voltage input range, the higher the current output, the larger the module, but you can get as small as the, you know, the MPM 3811 is two by two by 1.6 millimeters. So the family we're talking about here is that I've used is the 3610 and 3620. So it's three by five by 1.6 millimeters. So let's look at the overhead real fast and we'll show it in stock. So this is actually the power BFF, which is actually the product of the week. So you'll see, I wanted to make a board where it was a DC-DC converter from this, you know, 12 volt DC jack or terminal block and five volt output at one, you know, 1.2 amps. And to do that, I had to make it this small, like the board size was fixed because it had to fit like so, I'm not sure how to put it in. It had to fit in this like 0.7 by, you know, one inch size. And so it turned out that actually I didn't even have the size to put an inductor and a DC converter and the only way I could make this all work out is to use one of the MPM 3610s or I'll probably make another version now, the 3510. And then you can see the bulk capacitance and then tiny, tiny little resistor over there that's used to make the resistor divider. And then, yeah, there's an enable pin that you can use to, for, you know, really low power usage, you shut off the buck converter all together using these two pads over here. So, you know, I use this series of modules all the time. I'm really psyched that they have the 3510 because the only downside of the 3610 is it had that 20 volt max. I really wanted to have people be able to use it with up to 24 volts. So I'm gonna probably revise this design to use the 3510. And the good news is that it's in stock. So I can do that. Pick them up. Did you key for a couple of bucks, the 3510? But then check out the entire family. If you want something very small and very fast, kind of can't beat this series of modules from MPM. Oh, we have a video. The electronics industry is evolving, and these changes will have a big effect on the power design market. Design solutions can now be integrated into one package pre-optimized by MPS engineers. 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