This paper presents a customized wireless power management microsystem for endoscopic capsule robot. The microsystem is composed of a rectifier, a regulator, a battery charger and A low Dropout (LDO) regulator. The electromagnetic energy signal received from a self-resonant coil is rectified and then regulated to generate a stable DC voltage for charging the Li-ion battery. Stable DC voltage is...

Integrated voltage regulators with a wide output current/voltage dynamic range are required to support fast dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). Low Dropout Regulators (LDOs) based on digital-intensive circuits have been gaining popularity [1]–[4] due to their compactness, process scalability, high immunity to process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variations and easy programmability for de...

This paper presents two high-voltage circuits used in power management, a switching driver for buck converter with optimized on-resistance and a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator with 2-stacked pMOS pass devices. The circuit design is based on stacked MOSFETs, thus the circuits are technology independent. High-voltage drivers with stacked devices suffer from slow switching characteristics. In...

Experimental results of an active filter based onchip hybrid voltage converter are described in this paper. The area of the voltage converter is significantly less than the area of a conventional passive filter based DC-DC voltage converter or a low-dropout (LDO) regulator. Hence, the proposed circuit is appropriate for point-of-load voltage regulation for the noise sensitive portions of an int...

With the rise in demand of portable hand held devices and with the rise in application of wireless sensor networks and RFID reduction of total power consumption has become a necessity. To save power we operate the logic circuitry of our devices at sub-threshold. In sub-threshold the drain current is exponentially dependent on the threshold voltage hence the threshold variation causes profound v...

A capacitor-free CMOS low-dropout (LDO) regulator for system-on-chip (SoC) applications is presented. By adopting AC-boosting and active-feedback frequency compensation (ACB-AFFC), the proposed LDO regulator, which is independent of an off-chip capacitor, provides high closed-loop stability. Moreover, a slew rate enhancement circuit is adopted to increase the slew rate and decrease the output v...

Low-dropout regulators, commonly known as LDOs, are used extensively in a wide variety of electronic applications across many different industries. An LDO is generally perceived as a simple and inexpensive way to regulate and control an output voltage that is delivered from a higher input voltage supply. However, cost and simplicity are not the only reason for their widespread use. In fact, tod...

This paper describes the techniques to design low power series low dropout regulators (LDO) with low output noise and high power supply rejection (PSR). The noise analysis of the bandgap reference is critical to the linear regulator’s output noise, since it represents the main source of noise. The necessary trade-offs that a designer faces are discussed according to the demands of modern IP cor...