F1: Integrated voltage regulators for SoC and emerging IoT systems

Integrated voltage regulation is critical to the energy efficiency in systems ranging from high-end processors to emerging IoT devices. For large-scale systems, challenges include the large number of voltage domains, DVFS per domain, large current transients, and wide dynamic range of current loads. In the ultra-low-power space, major obstacles include coping with uncertainty in energy harvesting sources, low input power levels, and small decoupling capacitance in low-cost packages. This forum reviews modern designs and presents recent advances to address future IoT requirements.