Title :
Basics of floating-gate low-dropout voltage regulators
Author :
Low, AiChen ; Hasler, Paul
Author_Institution :
Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents an overview of series voltage regulators, beginning with single-transistor designs and exploring the various design issues and concepts. The regulating characteristics of nFET and pFET single-transistor regulators are compared analytically and experimentally to determine an optimal starting topology. The design of these simple regulators is taken a step further by applying floating-gate techniques to improve the flexibility of the existing design and the ability to customize the regulator bias points
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; circuit feedback; voltage regulators; CMOS processes; floating-gate voltage regulators; low-dropout voltage regulators; nFET single-transistor regulators; optimal starting topology; pFET single-transistor regulators; regulator bias points; series voltage regulators; single-transistor designs; Buildings; CMOS process; Circuit topology; FETs; Negative feedback; Paper technology; Protection; Regulators; Semiconductor device measurement; Voltage fluctuations;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lansing, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6475-9
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2000.951396
