Engineering Tradeoffs — question 3 of 10
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You need to add a 5V-to-3.3V, 500mA regulated rail to a prototype board that's due for a demo in two weeks. Would you use an off-the-shelf buck converter module or design a discrete buck converter from scratch? Justify the choice and say what you're giving up either way.