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I have 1 circuit composed from 3 little very simple circuits
I want to power them all from a 5V@1A power source.
All of these 3 circuits must be powered at different voltages.
Their current draw I measured for each of them.
A=4V @10mA, B=3.4V @1.6mA, C= 5V @24mA
What can you suggest?
Thank you.
(I re-edited)
For the 5V, connect directly.
For 3V and 4V, a linear LDO regulator for each one. Assuming they’re low current, linear would be fine.
The LDO (low drop-out) part is important. The regulator 'overhead' (or drop-out) voltage, needs to be less than the required Vin - Vout, with your worst case (lowest) Vin.
Why LDOs?
tl; dr version: the required overhead (drop-out) between Vin (5V) and the two Vout (4V, 3V) is too low to be satisfied by a non-LDO regulator like an LM317.
Analysis
Assuming +/-10% on your 5V supply, your lowest Vin will be 4.5V. Then, the maximum overhead allowed for each of your supplies is:
Neither of these can be satisfied by a non LDO regulator like the LM317, which has an overhead (drop-out) voltage of 3V. That won't work for this setup.
So you need LDOs. These have overhead (drop-out) of about 150 - 200mV, lower than your required overhead. More about those here: https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/understand-ldo-concepts.html
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