250mA ultra low drop out regulator with high slew rate double recycling folded cascode error amplifier

Author

Patri, Sreehari Rao ; Alapati, Suresh ; Chowdary, Surendra ; Prasad, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Warangal, Warangal, India

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a modified folded cascode error amplifier of low dropout (LDO) regulator and a compensation scheme to improve the transient response. The proposed error amplifier enhances its transconductance, gain, and slew rate by recycling the shunt current sources of conventional folded cascode amplifier without increasing area or power consumption. The design is implemented in a standard UMC 0.18μm CMOS process. The LDO regulator consumes a quiescent current of 34μAonly. Simulation results show that the overshoot/undershoot in the output voltage under the extreme load transients are 177.7mV/139mVfor load current range of 0.5mA to 250mA with an output capacitor of 1pF. The LDO presented is useful for chip level power management suitable for SoC applications.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; operational amplifiers; transient response; voltage regulators; LDO regulator; UMC CMOS process; capacitance 1 pF; current 0.5 mA to 250 mA; current 34 muA; gain; high slew rate double recycling folded cascode error amplifier; power consumption; shunt current sources; size 0.18 mum; transconductance; transient response; ultra low drop out regulator; voltage 139 mV; voltage 177.7 mV; Recycling; Regulators; System-on-chip; Transconductance; Transient response; Transistors; Voltage control; double recycling folded cascode error amplifier; high load current; low-dropout voltage regulator; low-quiescent current;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design and Test, 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5088-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISVDAT.2014.6881067

Filename

6881067