Family of 5 LDO regulators from TI with approximately awesome specs.

eg Iq of under 1 uA typical for 150 mA Iout at  fixed 3V3  with 130 mV
typical dropout at 150 mA and proportionately less at lower currents.
Stable with 1 uF ceramics at Vin and Vout.
Enough variability between offerinds that no simple summary sufficeth.

TPS782xx datasheet
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sbvs115b/sbvs115b.pdf

Start here

                        http://bit.ly/LDO01

Device Description IQ (=B5A)

TPS782 150-mA, single fixed-output LDO 0.5
TPS709 150-mA, 30-V, ultra-low IQ, wide-input LDO 1
TPS797 50-mA, single fixed-output LDO 1.2
TPS7A16 100-mA, 60-V, low IQ LDO 5
LP83 1-A CMOS, LDO 19

Free samples - individually or special VG kit of one each of 5 :-)
(=3D RM kit too I imagine :-) )

Digikey TPS78228DDCR ~+ 90c/1 and ~=3D 30c / 3000

It's strange that they can offer a full regulator with 0.5 uA Iq at
this price but a bandgap reference of higher Iq costs more.
eg LM385 $US0.43/3000  8 uA Cathode current  (8 typ, 15 max), Initial
voltage tolerance  +/- 2%,


         Russell McMahon
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Device Description IQ (=B5A)

TPS782 150-mA, single fixed-output LDO 0.5 Free Sample
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TPS7A16 100-mA, 60-V, low IQ LDO 5 Free Sample
LP83 1-A CMOS, LDO 19 Free Sample

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