General Description

The AOZ1036 is a high efficiency, easy to use, 5A synchronous buck regulator. The AOZ1036 works from 4.5V to 18V input voltage range, and provides up to 5A of continuous output current with an output voltage adjustable down to 0.8V.

The AOZ1036 comes in both a 5x4 DFN-8 and an exposed pad SO-8 package and is rated over a

-40°C to +85°C ambient temperature range.

Features

4.5V to 18V operating input voltage range

Synchronous Buck: 55mΩ internal high-side switch and 19mΩ Internal low-side switch

High efficiency: up to 95%

Internal soft start

Output voltage adjustable to 0.8V

5A continuous output current

Fixed 500kHz PWM operation

Cycle-by-cycle current limit

Pre-bias start-up

Short-circuit protection

Thermal shutdown

Thermally enhanced 5x4 DFN-8 and exposed pad SO-8 packages

Applications

Point of load DC/DC converters

LCD TV

Set top boxes

DVD / Blu-ray players/recorders

Cable modems

PCIe graphics cards