An active filter-based on-chip DC–DC voltage converter for application to distributed on-chip power supplies in multivoltage systems is described in this paper. No inductor or output capacitor is required in the proposed converter. The area of the voltage converter is therefore significantly less than that of a conventional low-dropout (LDO) regulator. Hence, the proposed circuit is appropriate...

A solution to the stability of capacitor-less low-dropout regulators with a 4pF Miller capacitor in Multi-level current amplifier is proposed. With the Miller compensation, a more than 50°phase margin is guaranteed in full load. An extra fast transient circuit is adopted to reduce stable time and peak voltage. When the load changes from light to heavy, the peak voltage is 40mV and chip quiescen...

This article presents a low quiescent current output-capacitorless quasi-digital complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator with controlled pass transistors according to load demands. The pass transistor of the LDO is segmented into two smaller sizes based on a proposed segmentation criterion, which considers the maximum output voltage transient variations...

Abstract: A novel low-dropout (LDO) regulator without external capacitor featuring with fast transient response and low-power dissipation for System-On-Chip (SOC) is proposed in this paper. By introducing an auxiliary feedback path to splits the poles without using a miller compensating scheme, the proposed LDO achieves fast transient response and high stability under all operating conditions. ...

Analog design is an inherently intricate process comprising many trade-offs; as a result, it iterative time-consuming operation. A low dropout voltage regulator (LDO) example of such analog blocks that involve myriad trade-offs. In this paper, we present automated procedure for LDOs using precomputed look-up tables (LUTs) and the gm/ID methodology. Using symbolic solver LUTs, database LDO conta...

An ultra-low quiescent current low-dropout regulator with small output voltage variations and improved load regulation is presented in this paper. It makes use of dynamically-biased shunt feedback as the buffer stage and the LDO regulator can be stable for all load conditions. The proposed structure also employs a momentarily current-boosting circuit to reduce the output voltage to the normal v...