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FredFl
Dec 10, 2008, 04:51 AM
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TugBoat
Dec 10, 2008, 05:30 AM
Personally I would run all the power supplies from the 10V input, rather than cascading the regulators. In the end the power dissipation is the same...

If you really need a stable MCU supply then you need to look at something with suitable transient response. Things like the LT1587CM-3.3 (there are lots of similar parts designed specificially for MCU power supplies).

Also you need to use suitable capacitors with low ESR/low ESL and good frequency charactistics.