Voltage Translators: An Architecture for Every Application

The Problem:

Market Trends such as AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, and ADAS are forcing faster processing speeds, a higher number of cores or pixels, and smaller process nodes, resulting in lowerI/O Voltages for chip-to-chip protocols like I2C, SPI, GPIO, UART, PMBus and SMBus. An “Oops moment” can occur if these lower I/O voltages do not agree, resulting in bit errors.

The Solution:

Voltage Translators are a great fix these “Oops moments”. It might cost millions of dollars to redesign one of these ASICs or MCUs to resolve this problem. But simply inserting a voltage translator in between the two ICs an be less than a $0.10 fix.

Graphic of a block diagram explaining the problem with voltage translators
Graphic of a block diagram explaining the solution with voltage translators
Architecture by application block diagram
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