This is a switching regulator that supports buck, boost and inverting topologies, but perhaps it most notable feature is that it was first produced by Motorola in the early 1980s. This particular ...

By going contrary to conventional thinking, a design team devised a more-efficient regulator device for the DC-power path.

[SM6VFZ] designed, built and tested a switched-mode DC-DC boost ... changes (boost, buck, fly back etc.). The “Getting Started with Core Independent Peripherals on AVR®” application note ...