Targets with Internal Regulators

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Many devices will have an internal voltage regulator - for example the following excerpt from the ATMega128RFA1 datasheet shows a 3.3V input being regulated by an internal voltage regulator:

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This may seem to be a problem for performing side-channel power analysis. There is two possible ways around this:


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