Buck-boost & sepic

Multiple configurations and sizes to meet your design needs

Minimize power loss

Deliver maximum power without draining battery life. Our buck-boost, inverting and split-rail products simplify power-supply design with integrated components that help you shrink overall solution size, minimize power loss and extend battery life for a wide range of electronic devices. Choose from our broad portfolio of products that feature low quiescent current, high power density and low EMI.

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Power modules (integrated magnetics)

The simplest and smallest option for step-down DC/DC voltage conversion.

Converters (integrated FET)

Balance simplicity and flexibility with integrated-FET step-down voltage converters

Controllers (external FET)

Achieve high reliability in high-power, thermally-demanding applications

Design & development resources

Design tool

WEBENCH® Power Designer

WEBENCH® Power Designer creates customized power-supply circuits based on your requirements. The environment gives you end-to-end power-supply design capabilities that save you time during all phases of the design process.

Simulation tool

PSpice® for TI design and simulation tool

PSpice® for TI is a design and simulation environment that helps evaluate functionality of analog circuits. This full-featured, design and simulation suite uses an analog analysis engine from Cadence®. Available at no cost, PSpice for TI includes one of the largest model libraries in the (...)

Design tool

Power Stage Designer™ software tool of most commonly used switchmode power supplies

Power Stage Designer is a JAVA-based tool that helps speed up power-supply designs as it calculates voltages and currents of 21 topologies based on user inputs. Additionally, Power Stage Designer contains a Bode plotting tool and a helpful toolbox with various functions to make power supply design (...)

Technical resources

Application note

How to Achieve Low EMI with TPS55288 Buck-Boost Converter

Get an analysis of the root cause of EMI noise and design guidelines to help you minimize EMI noise, including layout and circuit-level design tips.

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Application note

LM5176 Power Sharing Between Two Parallel, Four-Switch Buck-Boost Converters

This application report presents a cost-effective solution to achieve balanced load sharing between the two paralleled converters within 1% error, without sacrificing overall performance.

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Technical article

Four-switch buck-boost layout tip No. 4: routing gate-drive and return paths

Printed circuit board (PCB) layout design plays a critical role in achieving high performance for a four-switch buck-boost regulator. Read this article to learn about optimal routing of the gate-drive and return paths.