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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> BTW, for thermal reasons, you typically want to specify the RMS of the
>> current, not the linear average. That's quite different, say, at the input
>> of a buck SMP regulator, at least between the decoupling capacitors and the
>> current switches.
>
> At those points, it's the trace inductance that's an issue, not the
> current.  I think limiting ourselves to a "current in/out" model is,
> well, limiting.

+1

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