Benefits include active single-wire current sharing which operates from 10 to 100% of full load, enabling multiple supplies to be easily paralleled for high current applications. The DS2000 is hot pluggable, has no minimum load requirement, and incorporates low-loss internal ORing FETs (Field Effect Transistors) on their main 12V output, for fault-tolerant and N+1 redundancy applications. It also contains a serial EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) that is preprogrammed with data about the unit, including its type, serial number and date of manufacture, to facilitate replacement in the field. A built-in I2C interface, which uses the PMBus communications protocol, enables the data to be read back to the system under power.