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Re:Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die ... by megous on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:45PM (#28226186)
Even MCU controlled SPS often times have pure analog control loop, where A/D and MCU is there mostly there for monitoring and perhaps digital control of some loop parameters, but the software is not an integral part of the loop itself...

Which is perhaps for the good, if you look for example on the boost topology, where saturation of the inductor leads to the shorting of the input through a switching transistor to the ground... :)

Re:Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die ... by pwr-electronics on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:08PM (#28227177)
Here's an interesting video series describing such a software-configured, hardware-controlled switching controller.

Here, Microchip markets this particular line of PIC MCUs as a "field-programmable switch-mode power controller". But weirdly I haven't seen that language on their main site.

https://mu.microchip.com/getting-started-with-cip-hybrid-pow...