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Hardware related to open-source shim amplifier development for MRI research
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Increase +2.5V linear regulator power-handling #22

Closed dcstraney closed 2 days ago

dcstraney commented 2 days ago

Xilinx Power Estimator spreadsheet estimates 490 mA needed on +2.5V rail for all the Snickerdoodle I/O banks: this is too much current & too much dissipation for existing linear regulator in SOT-23 package.

500 mA * (3.3V - 2.5V) = 400 mW dissipation. This will not be a problem in an SMT package heatsinked to the many large internal copper planes. Even though PCB-plane heatsinking tops out at ~50 K/W, this only results in a Tj rise of +20 K.

dcstraney commented 2 days ago

Fixed in https://github.com/stockmann-lab/shim_amp_hardware_linear/commit/77c6391e5d2cc5e16fec86e1794d17f57021ad2c