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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.9.6247

Design of a On-chip LDO regulator with enhanced transient response characteristics by parallel error amplifiers  

Son, Hyun-Sik (Department of Nanoscience and Engineering Inje University)
Lee, Min-Ji (Department of Nanoscience and Engineering Inje University)
Kim, Nam Tae (Department of Electronic Telecommunications, Mechanical & Automotive Engineering Inje University)
Song, Han-Jung (Department of Nanoscience and Engineering Inje University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.9, 2015 , pp. 6247-6253 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the transient-response improved LDO regulator based on parallel error amplifiers. The proposed LDO regulator consists of an error amplifier (E/A1) which has a high gain and narrow bandwidth and a second amplifier (E/A2) which has low gain and wide bandwidth. These amplifiers are in parallel structure. Also, to improve the transient-response properties and slew-rate, some circuit block is added. Using pole-splitting technique, an external capacitor is reduced in a small on-chip size which is suitable for mobile devices. The proposed LDO has been designed and simulated using a Megna/Hynix $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS parameters. Chip layout size is $500{\mu}m{\times}150{\mu}m$. Simulation results show 2.5 V output voltage and 100 mA load current in an input condition of 2.7 V ~ 3.3 V. Regulation Characteristic presents voltage variation of 26.1 mV and settling time of 510 ns from 100mA to 0 mA. Also, the proposed circuit has been shown voltage variation of 42.8 mV and settling time of 408 ns from 0 mA to 100 mA.
Keywords
Capacitor-less; LDO regulator; On-chip; Parallel error amplifier; PMIC;
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