Title :
A 3MHz Low-Voltage Buck Converter with Improved Light Load Efficiency
Author :
Mulligan, Michael D. ; Broach, Bill ; Lee, Thomas H.
Author_Institution :
National Semicond., Santa Clara, CA
Abstract :
A low-voltage synchronous buck converter has been designed and fabricated in a 0.5mum CMOS technology. The converter uses two charge conservation techniques to increase efficiency at light loads while still operating in PWM mode at a switching frequency of 3MHz. These techniques reduce IC power loss from 11.5mW to 8.9mW, a 22.7% reduction, for lload = 20mA and Vout = 1.8V.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; power convertors; 0.5 micron; 1.8 V; 11.5 to 8.9 mW; 20 mW; 3 MHz; CMOS technology; PWM; charge conservation techniques; integrated circuit power loss; light load efficiency; low-voltage synchronous buck converter; switching frequency; Adaptive control; Application specific integrated circuits; Buck converters; Energy management; MOS devices; Pulse modulation; Pulse width modulation; Switching converters; Switching frequency; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ISSCC 2007. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0853-9
Electronic_ISBN :
0193-6530
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373527