BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER POWER DELIVERY

Systems and apparatus for delivering power to a BMC include: a rack unit, a PSU providing power to a power supply voltage rail, servers installed in the rack unit, a plurality of BMCs, with each BMC coupled to one of the servers and configured to monitor one or more components of the server, and a BMC voltage regulator system including a power input coupled to the power supply voltage rail, a decoupling diode that includes an input coupled to the power input, a capacitor bank coupled to an output of the decoupling diode, and a buck/boost VRD having an input coupled to the capacitor bank and an output coupled to one of the BMCs.