What is Power management IC (PMIC)?

An IC that generates multiple voltages from a battery or similar and manages power-up sequencing and voltage changes.

Field: Power Management

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  1. What is the role of a PMIC (power management IC) used in smartphones and similar devices?
  2. What is the component called in which several DRAM chips are mounted on a small board that plugs into a PC as memory?

Related terms

SoC (system on chip) DVFS (dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) DIMM ACPI Activity factor Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) Break-even time C-state Dynamic power Energy-delay product (EDP)

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