OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

Designing a custom power chip used to mean an ASIC budget and a year of NRE, but Renesas Power GreenPAK lets you configure one at your desk in minutes. In this OnTrack Podcast episode, host Zach Peterson talks with Sidney Chan, product marketing director in the Configurable Mixed Signal Division at Renesas, about how Power GreenPAK folds DC-DC converters, LDOs, and load switches into the same programmable platform engineers already use for power sequencing, reset ICs, and watchdog timing. 

Sidney walks through a live camera demo built on the SLG51002, an eight-channel high-PSRR LDO, showing how supply noise turns into visible banding and artifacts on a CMOS image sensor and why clean rails matter for smartphones, automotive camera systems, and even endoscopes. He also covers the wider GreenPAK family, including AnalogPAK, HVPAK, Automotive GreenPAK, and the new ForgeFPGA line, plus what configurable converter architectures could unlock for system-level efficiency. If you select power components from a catalog distributor and requalify every time a rail changes, this is a genuinely different way to approach power management IC design.

📚 More from this Episode:
- Renesas Power GreenPAK: https://www.renesas.com/en/products/programmable-logic/greenpak-programmable-mixed-signal-products/power-greenpak 
- Go Configure Software Hub: https://www.renesas.com/en/software-tool/go-configure-software-hub 
- Connect with Dima Mymrikov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dima-mymrikov-88133431/ 
- Renesas ForgeFPGA: https://www.renesas.com/en/products/programmable-logic 
- Renesas AnalogPAK: https://www.renesas.com/en/products/programmable-logic/greenpak-programmable-mixed-signal-products/analogpak 
- Renesas HVPAK: https://www.renesas.com/en/products/programmable-logic/greenpak-programmable-mixed-signal-products/hvpak 
- Renesas SLG51002 (8-channel high-PSRR LDO): https://www.renesas.com/en/products/slg51002 

💡 Watch Next:
- Programmable Logic Made Easy: GreenPAK Tutorial with Dima Mymrikov: https://youtu.be/2b4TWE5zlB4
- GreenPAK for Automotive: Reliability, Integration & Real-World Demos: https://youtu.be/ZjqgSIMcCTA
- Capacitor Self Resonance | Power Integrity in PCB Design: https://youtu.be/kvWHQmSML-4

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