When you need a voltage regulator for your circuit and do not have much of a voltage head room, the trick is to use an LDO or a low-dropout regulator. Normal regulators need voltage headroom of roughly around 3V to allow good regulation, but LDOs can do with a lot less – of the order of a few 100 millivolts. However, there are other considerations as well. To regulate and control an output voltage, it is necessary to source it from a higher input voltage supply. For normal regulators, the voltage Read more [...]