Difference between revisions of "Voltage regulator"

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Latest revision as of 20:54, 14 December 2018

A voltage regulator is a piece of analog circuitry which is used to provide an output at a constant voltage.

Some voltage regulators (in physical form) also include the output transistor, and thus produce the constant-voltage output directly. Others are just control circuits, and take as input the output of a power supply, and provide outputs which direct other parts of the power supply to increase or decrease the voltage of its output.