The efficiency of the converter powering the NT is extremely important, even at power levels of a few milliwatts. To achieve 60% efficiency with an 80-mW output, the allowable power loss in the converter is less than 54 mW. The components of these losses include the dc and switching losses in the semiconductors, the transformer, quiescent current overhead in the control chip, current and voltage sense networks, power losses from the ripple current through the input and output capacitor ESR, resistive losses in the PCB traces, and any external control circuit operating losses. Built on a proprietary BiC/DMOS technology, the Si9113 integrates all the functions necessary to minimize power consumption. Its major features include: