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Voltage Level Translation Slide 2

Modern trends are driving the need for lower supply voltages across many system-level designs. As most processor voltage levels continue to decrease in the interest of achieving the lowest possible power consumption, peripheral devices maintain a need for higher voltage levels, creating the potential for voltage discontinuities within a system. To remedy this mixed voltage system incompatibility, a voltage translator can be used. A variety of architectures provide solutions for different application environments including dual-supply direction-controlled, auto-direction sensing, and application-specific memory card interface translators. As shown in this slide, a voltage level translator from TI can be used to remedy voltage discontinuity and incompatibility gaps.

PTM Published on: 2011-04-13