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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS
Volume 61, Issue 2, Pages 625-636Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2300847
Keywords
Fast start-up; high power supply rejection; low quiescent current; low-dropout regulator; output-capacitor-free; robust design; SoC power management
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- Hong Kong Research Grant Council [GRF HKUST 613512]
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This paper summarizes and extends our discussions on the recently developed output-capacitor-free low-dropout regulators (LDRs) with low quiescent current and high power supply rejection (LQC-HPSR LDRs) for SoC power management applications. By modifying the biasing scheme in a cascoding-based high-PSR topology, quiescent current consumption is significantly reduced while high PSR over a wide frequency range is maintained. The operation principle of the LQC-HPSR LDRs is elaborated and comprehensive analysis of PSR at different frequency ranges is presented. Furthermore, a novel implementation with enhanced robustness is proposed to limit the internal voltage range and accelerate the start-up speed as well. Two 12 mA LQC-HPSR LDRs-the first has one and the second has two NMOS transistors cascoded to the core regulator-have been designed in a 0.35-mu m CMOS process with active areas of 0.055 mm(2) and 0.084mm(2), respectively. Experimental results showed that they had dropout voltages of 0.4 V and 0.6 V, and achieved PSRs better than -23.0 dB and -38.0 dB up to 50 MHz at full load while consuming quiescent currents of only 28.6 mu A and 43.9 mu A, respectively.
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