Monday, June 18, 2012

MCP1700 LDO Voltage Regulator from MicroChip

I am building a MIDI player using Arduino platform since I got Arduino Duemilanove in late 2009. A year later, I came up with a working (but not perfect) version. This year I tried to build a breadboard version. The next target ? Of course a standalone portable version on PCB. The problem is, how to power up my little gadget with batteries like CR2032.

After searching the web and I finally decided to use MCP1700 from MicroChip. It is a LDO voltage regulator in TO-92 package.

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21826b.pdf

I have bought a few of them for my battery-powered projects.