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Design of Capacitor-Less LDO with High-Frequency PSR Suitable for a Wide

Range of On-Chip Capacitive Loads

Abstract
Design of on chip Digital low drop-out (DLDO) voltage regulator with improved
power-supply rejection (PSR) able to drive large capacitive loads. The DLDO
compensation is achieved via a custom, wide bandwidth capacitance multiplier (c-
multiplier) that emulates a nano farad-range capacitance at the DLDO output node.
The DLDO frequency response resembles that of externally compensated DLDOs,
leading to a wide PSR frequency range without using an off-chip capacitor. To drive
large capacitive loads without stability concerns, the supply-line capacitance of the
load circuit is incorporated to the design of the DLDO compensation scheme. The
power-stability-performance tradeoffs involved in the design are discussed in detail.
The DLDO and the c-multiplier are implemented in NANO SCALE CMOS technology
and target applications with load currents in the 10-mA range. Experimental results
show that the DLDO achieves a PSR better than 39 dB up to 100 MHz at 1.2 V
output voltages, while maintaining a 97.4% current efficiency.

Existing System
In the Existing system LDO and the c-multiplier are implemented in 0.18-m CMOS
technology and target applications with load currents in the 10-mA range.
Experimental results show that the LDO achieves a PSR better than 39 dB up to 20
MHz at 1.2 V output voltage, while maintaining a 97.4% current efficiency.

Proposed system

In the proposed design Design of on chip Digital low drop-out (DLDO) voltage regulator
with improved power-supply rejection (PSR) able to drive large capacitive loads is
implemented. The DLDO and the c-multiplier are implemented in NANO SCALE
CMOS technology and target applications with load currents in the 10-mA range.
Experimental results show that the DLDO achieves a PSR better than 39 dB up to
100 MHz at low output voltages.
Block diagram

FPGA

Power Control
Supply signal

Reference
Capacitor-less LDO Display
Signal
Global Clock regulator output
generator

Hardware Clock divider


Reset

Connector

JTAG

Applications
1. Multipurpose DC Supply
2. Signal Processors development kits

Software Required
1. Simulation Tool : Modelsim 6.3G Altera

2. Implementation Tool : Xilinx ISE 12.5

3. Power Tool : Xilinx XPE

4. Spice Tool : Synopsys

5. Language : VHDL

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