• DocumentCode
    3002993
  • Title

    Design of buck converter circuits operating in weak-inversion region

  • Author

    Ahn, Youngkook ; Kim, Kitae ; Nam, Hyunseok ; Choi, Youngkil ; Hyungdong Roh ; Roh, Hyungdong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Ansan
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-22 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    104
  • Lastpage
    108
  • Abstract
    A 900-nA quiescent current buck converter is implemented in standard 0.25 mum CMOS technology. The controller´s analog subblocks are designed to operate in weak-inversion region to reduce quiescent current. It also implements internal compensation circuit to minimize external passive components. In order to reduce the size of an on-chip capacitor, the Miller effect is utilized. The measurement results show the successful operation of the DC-DC converter in extremely low quiescent current.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; DC-DC power convertors; PWM power convertors; CMOS technology; DC-DC converter; Miller effect; buck converter circuits; current 900 nA; on-chip capacitor; quiescent current buck converter; size 0.25 mum; Buck converters; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Circuit noise; Circuit synthesis; Control systems; DC-DC power converters; Hysteresis; Pulse width modulation; Switching frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design and Test Workshop, 2008. IDT 2008. 3rd International
  • Conference_Location
    Monastir
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3479-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3478-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IDT.2008.4802476
  • Filename
    4802476