The UCC2918 low on-resistance hot swap power manager provides complete power management, hot swap capability, and circuit breaker functions. The only components needed to operate the device, other than supply bypassing, are a timing capacitor and two programming resistors. All control and housekeeping functions are integrated and externally programmable. These include the fault current level, maximum output sourcing current, maximum fault time, and startup delay. In the event of a constant fault, the internal fixed 3% duty cycle ratio limits the average output power. The IFAULT pin allows linear programming of the fault level current from 0 A to 4 A.