> You must make sure that not only does your supply provide the peak current 
>needed, it must also respond fast enough to current changes and the 
>resulting dI/dT induced voltage swings must be restrained by appropriate >decoupling. 

I'm hoping that by making the specs public people like you can/will give feedback.

>If you get this part wrong, you probably won't notice it until you've shipped 
>enough machines that somebody out there ran some software that drove the CPU 
>through a big enough current swing to droop your supply and cause a 
>malfunction. 

Does the GPL apply here ;)

>It takes major engineering talent to identify and resolve this if it 
>happens. 

LAD!

>The best advice you got so far is to dissect a laptop and do what they do. 
>Even better, hire yourself a consultant who knows this area, and she can keep >you 
>out of trouble. 

I'm hoping that enough people will be interested in this project that it can be 
considered Open source.

--
Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd
For the discerning hardware connoisseur
Http://www.boosthardware.com
Http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/

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