Patent ID: 7573152

Claim:
A power management device comprising an integrated circuit and one or more voltage networks, the integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of power regulators, each regulator comprising a regulator input and a regulator output, wherein each power regulator is controlled according to the voltage on the respective regulator input; a sequencer for providing a plurality of sequencer outputs; a plurality of integrated circuit outputs, each coupled to a respective power regulator output; a plurality of integrated circuit inputs, each coupled to a respective power regulator input; and a plurality of integrated circuit sequencer outputs, each coupled to a respective sequencer output; wherein the voltage networks each have input voltage nodes and an output voltage node and each integrated circuit sequencer output is coupled to a node of one or more of said voltage networks, to modify the voltage on the output voltage node of said one or more voltage networks, and each integrated circuit input is coupled to the output voltage node of a respective one of said one or more voltage networks.