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As supply voltages have scaled down and power consumption has risen, delivering power to CMOS chips in an efficient and stable manner has become increasingly challenging - making noise on the power supply inevitable. In this talk, we describe techniques to measure the frequency spectrum of supply noise as it is seen on the die using only simple circuits, to build regulators efficient enough to simultaneously reduce both the noise on the supply as well as the overall power dissipation of the chip.