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Protection for voltage regulators

Design tip

Published in issue 388, April 2009

In many cases, the load connected to a voltage regulator is not returned to ground but to an even lower voltage or perhaps even the negative power supply voltage (here we make the assumption of using positive voltages; when using voltage regulators with negative output voltages the reverse is true).

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