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A 50-mA 99.2% Peak Current Efficiency, 250-ns Settling Time Digital Low-Dropout Regulator With Transient Enhanced PI Controller.
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems; Aug2017, Vol. 25 Issue 8, p2360-2370, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- A fully integrated digital low-dropout regulator (DLDO) with a fast transient response, providing a regulated supply for system-on-chip (SoC) power management applications is proposed. Wideband operation and fast transient response are achieved through a transient enhanced proportional-integral controller, without compromising the stability of the DLDO at steady-state operation. The transient enhancement stage boosts loop-gain dynamically during load transients. In the gain boosting mode, the DLDO closed-loop bandwidth is increased, resulting in reduced undershoot/overshoot and fast settling. When the output voltage recovers to the desired level, the boost mode operation is disabled. For a load change with a 4-mA/ns slew rate between 10 and 50 mA, utilizing transient enhancement mode reduced the measured undershoot and overshoot by 35% and 17%, respectively. The characterization results show that the transient enhancement mode can reduce the settling time from 500 to 250 ns for a 10–50-mA load current change. The proposed DLDO operates with an input voltage ranging from 0.84 to 1.24 V, and output voltage ranging from 0.6 to 1 V. The maximum output current of the DLDO is 50 mA and the DLDO achieves a peak current efficiency of 99.2%, with DLDO figure of merit (FOM2) of 63.25 ps. The DLDO prototype chip is fabricated on a 0.13- \mu \textm CMOS technology and occupies a 0.0631-mm2 die area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10638210
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 124331367
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TVLSI.2017.2682862