You have to supply your highest DC load plus the current needed to ramp your capacitors. There are many, many power supply design application notes from all of the SMPS controller / regulator players as well as many good books on power supply design widely available. Steve. Sonu Kurian N.D wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to design a power supply , for powering 2 SODIMM DDR3 > modules on a Board. > SODIMM datasheet ( For example from MICRON) specifies different > currents like ICCD0,ICCD1,ICCD5B etc.. > Of these , the Refresh current(ICCD5B) is the highest one, which is > around 2Amperes. > My question is, can I take the refresh current as the Imax for my > regulator design? > How can we determine the load current rating for the regulator? > Could anyone please direct me to any application notes that can help me > for the same? > > many thanks, > Sonu > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > -- Steve Weir IPBLOX, LLC 150 N. Center St. #211 Reno, NV 89501 www.ipblox.com (775) 299-4236 Business (866) 675-4630 Toll-free (707) 780-1951 Fax ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu