{"title":"A 0.6–1V input capacitor-less asynchronous digital LDO with fast transient response achieving 9.5b over 500mA loading range in 65-nm CMOS","authors":"Fan Yang, P. Mok","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313858","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 65-nm external capacitor-less asynchronous digital low drop-out regulator (DLDO) with adaptive sizing and fast transient response is presented in this paper. Operating at a wide input voltage range from as low as 0.6V to 1V, this DLDO is capable of delivering a maximum current of 500mA with 50mV drop-out voltage. The proposed adaptive sizing featured by row-column-bit 3-dimensional (3D) power stage and its asynchronous adaptive digital pipeline control have enabled a fast transient response to nanoseconds' loading current change and a 200mV per 10ns reference voltage switching, as well as a fine resolution of 768 levels (~9.5 bits) with a 5mV output ripple. The quiescent current consumed by this DLDO at steady operation is as low as 300μA over the whole input range.","PeriodicalId":11845,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC Conference 2015 - 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"26","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESSCIRC Conference 2015 - 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313858","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A 65-nm external capacitor-less asynchronous digital low drop-out regulator (DLDO) with adaptive sizing and fast transient response is presented in this paper. Operating at a wide input voltage range from as low as 0.6V to 1V, this DLDO is capable of delivering a maximum current of 500mA with 50mV drop-out voltage. The proposed adaptive sizing featured by row-column-bit 3-dimensional (3D) power stage and its asynchronous adaptive digital pipeline control have enabled a fast transient response to nanoseconds' loading current change and a 200mV per 10ns reference voltage switching, as well as a fine resolution of 768 levels (~9.5 bits) with a 5mV output ripple. The quiescent current consumed by this DLDO at steady operation is as low as 300μA over the whole input range.