Do you think AnDapt's Customizable PMICs Can Upset the PMIC Market?

[coldmama9]

Last December, AnDapt started a customizable PMIC service that shortens development time significantly. They claim such can imbalance the PMIC market. What are your opinions on this? (AnDapt and their online development tools can be searched through Google).

[mmagin]

So this is some kind of CPLD/FPGA type thing with PMIC bits on-board?

[EEVblog]

Are you fishing for info for an article in the magazine? 

[timb]

Last December, AnDapt started a customizable PMIC service that shortens development time significantly. They claim such can imbalance the PMIC market. What are your opinions on this? (AnDapt and their online development tools can be searched through Google).

Frankly I can do the same thing with a PSoC so I don't see why I would? (The PSoC can do trim/margin, power good, voltage/current monitoring plus rail sequencing for up to 18 rails! Fully customizable.)

[julianhigginson]

well, you got me to google them... good job.

Surely suitability of a product like this all comes down to PRICE?

As mentioned above, other flexible solutions do a lot of this already... And, well, dumb PMICs are plentiful - the trick is just finding the right one for your application. (but many complex devices nowdays have reference designs that have a part they use for this job already if you're stuck)

so answer the 2 questions:

1) how much work is it to configure a multi domain supply using anDapt vs PSoC vs just combing through existing "dumb" PMIC part lists for the one that does what you need?

2) what's anDapt cost to use in the application, per PCB vs a PSoC or a generic dumb PMIC chip?

and there's your answer for anDapt in general.

Not sure I have the time or nerve to go and use anDapt in a design without some very good reason to try and without some good reassurance that things will work out. Generally the boards needing a good PMIC are very complex, and therefore expensive to prototype and respin. It'd suck having a complex board fail to work right because the PMIC wasn't right! You need some pretty big benefits to balance out a risk like that!