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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: National Semiconductor | Subject: LM5080
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 October 2005

Controller chip balances parallel power
supplies

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A load-share controller IC balances currents from parallel power supplies in a variety of distributed power applications, including telecomms and datacomms systems.

National Semiconductor has introduced a load-share controller IC for balancing currents from parallel power supplies in a variety of distributed power applications, including telecomms and datacomms systems The LM5080 implements the average program method of active load-share control, which adjusts the output voltage of individual power supplies either up or down to deliver nearly equal currents to a common load