Dolphin Semiconductor’s power management IP platform is at the heart of our expertise. Our world-class designs are renowned for their nano-power characteristics. We have been helping to reliably save power and extend battery life for decades.
Dolphin Semiconductor offers a portfolio of high-performance power management IP blocks (DC/DC converters, LDO regulators and voltage monitors) across various process nodes, ensuring reliable power supplies to both active and always-on domains.
With a wide range of input and output voltages, as well as flexible output current capability, those products are designed to accelerate and secure the development of energy-efficient SoCs, reducing development cost and time to market.
12 nm – Under development
Smallest node supported
Max input voltage
World-class nano-power expertise
Figures are Dolphin design targets and silicon measurements published in the IP Catalog 2026.
Power management platform architecture: always-on and active clusters around the power controller.
The platform combines a range of LDOs and DC-DC converters, so designers can match power management to each SoC’s needs.
LDOs come in three variants: general-purpose (GP), low quiescent current (LQ) and capless (CL). Each is optimized for different parameters, giving the best trade-off for each use case.
DC-DC converters are designed for nano-power operation and low noise. Alongside general-purpose converters, the portfolio includes audio-grade DC-DCs clean enough to supply audio codecs directly. This removes the intermediate LDO, saving die area and cost and improving efficiency.
Adaptive body biasing of the digital core against process and environmental variation
Peak performance and compactness whatever the environmental changes
Low-power SoCs needing PPA margin under variation
LP MCU
Buck conversion supplying always-on and active domains from a single stage
Low quiescent current, high efficiency at light load
Battery, USB or mixed-source power trees
GNSS Wireless MCUs
Wireless MCU ANC CGM USB
Single-inductor multiple-output conversion for several rails from one inductor
Reduces external component count and board area
Space-constrained wearables and hearables
Wearables
TWS BLE MCU Smart glasses IoT
Linear regulation for noise-sensitive or low-quiescent rails
High-performance, low-quiescent and capless architectures
Analog and RF supply rails
GNSS Wearables
Audio RF Power-gating
Power-on-reset and brown-out-reset detection of internal and external supplies
Robust monitoring across the supply range
Safe power-up and brown-out recovery
GNSS
All SoC All MCU AI / edge-AI
Dolphin Semiconductor’s power management platform supports a wide range of process technologies, from mature nodes down to 22 nm, as well as a growing portfolio of FinFET IPs.
| 40 nm | 22 nm | FinFET | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSMCT40LP/eF | TSMCT40uLP/ueF | TSMCT22uLL2.5V | TSMCT22uLL1.8V | GFGF22fdx/fdx+ | TSMCN12e | VariousN7–N2— | |
| Power management | |||||||
Full or near-full supportIn developmentRoadmap
Every application where high-performance matters, but not at the cost of high current consumption, is a perfect candidate for Dolphin Semiconductor’s IPs.
DC/DC Converters LDO Regulators Voltage Monitors
Clean, low-noise rails and reliable brown-out protection for continuous satellite tracking
ABB
Adaptive body biasing keeps deep-sleep leakage at a minimum without sacrificing active-mode PPA
SIMO LDO Regulators
Single-inductor multi-rail conversion cuts board area and inductor cost in space-constrained form factors
DC/DC Converters
A single buck converter serves both radio-active and always-on domains regardless of the input energy source
These blocks are available across a wide range of process technologies, from mature nodes down to 22 nm, as well as a growing portfolio of FinFET IPs; the exact node and foundry list for a given block is in its datasheet, available on request.
Dolphin licenses per project, with the option of per-unit royalties depending on the block and the volume. A licence covers the deliverable set needed for integration: views, models, documentation and integration support. Terms are set with the field engineering team during the technical evaluation.
This platform connects directly to any battery chemistry (Lithium-ion, Alkaline) or USB, up to 5.5 V input voltage, without a separate front-end for each source.
Yes. Dolphin’s Application Lab supports pre-licence technical evaluation, including characterisation data review and integration feasibility on the target node. Requests go through the support channel below.
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