DEVELOPERS ZONE

Welcome to the PMBus Developer’s Zone, your source for the latest technical information.

Our featured webcast titled “PMBus 101” , provides an overview of this open standard power-management protocol and the advantages it brings to a system level communications between the different power elements. Learn more about the versatility of this standard and how you can implement it in your solution.

Join TI's Dave Freeman for this webcast.

David Freeman is an Engineering Manager in System Power Products for Texas Instruments Incorporated. In this position, he manages systems engineering as well as being a core member of the digital power team at TI. David has 15 years of experience in power related areas with a strong emphasis in portable power management and currently contributes a monthly opinion column in Portable Design magazine. His current focus is in the area of digital power development where he concentrates on specialized microcontroller peripherals that are optimized for power applications. Prior to moving to the semiconductor field, he spent 15 years in petroleum research developing measurement methods and equipment for fluid, electrical and mineralogical properties. David is a Texas Instruments Fellow.

PMBus™ Resources

• Power Supply goes Digital (.PDF, 476 KB)
  White paper; one of PMBus adopter Ericsson’s white papers (October 2006)
• PMBus seminar for Power Electronics Technology 2005 (.PDF, 1114 KB)
  PowerPoint® presentation (October 24, 2005)
• Data Communications Issues for Digital Power Management (.PDF, 363 KB)
  PowerPoint presentation (October 13, 2005)
• Using the PMBus (.PDF, 1475 KB)
  PowerPoint presentation (October 12, 2005)

Older Published Specs (PMBus 1.0)

(For the current published PMBus 1.1 specs, go to the specs page.)

• PMBus Specification Part I Rev. 1.0 Final 2005-03-24 (.PDF, 225 KB)
• PMBus Specification Part II Rev. 1.0 Final 2005-03-28 (.PDF, 675 KB)