TODAY’S consumer market, battery-operated portable
electronic devices such as cellular phones, personal digital
assistants (PDAs), and other palm-size devices are in great
demand. Power management ICs, such as the highly efficient
low-voltage switch-mode DC–DC converters, are mandatory in
these devices for maximizing the system run time. In order to
decrease the size and weight of these devices, miniaturization
of the power modules is essential