Abstract:
A power management unit (115) for a non-volatile memory device (100) is proposed. The power management unit includes means (125) for providing a reference voltage, resistive means (Rr) for deriving a reference current from the reference voltage, means (135 1 -135 n ) for generating a plurality of operative voltages from a power supply voltage, and means (145 1 -145 n ) for regulating the operative voltages; in the power management unit of the invention, for each operative voltage the means for regulating includes means (220) for deriving a scaled reference current from the reference current according to a scaling factor, further resistive means (245 i ) for deriving a rating voltage from the scaled reference current, means (220,245 i ) for deriving a measuring voltage from the operative voltage and the rating voltage, and means (250 i ) for controlling the operative voltage according to a comparison between the measuring voltage and the reference voltage.