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A Novel Fully On-Chip CMOS Low-Dropout Linear Regulator with Ultra Low Noise

Mao Cui, He Lenian and Yan Xiaolang

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Abstract: A fully on-chip low-dropout linear regulator (LDO) with ultra low noise is presented.This regulator uses a Vt/R based voltage reference rather than a commonly used bandgap reference to minimize the noise introduced by the reference voltage. The Vt/R based voltage reference employs a digital calibration schema to increase the accuracy of the output voltage.This fully on-chip LDO is designed in a TSMC 0.18μm RF CMOS process for the power supply of a low phase noise phase lock loop (PLL) with 10mA of DC current consumption.The simulation results indicate that the total output noise of the LDO is 26nV/Hz@100kHz and 14nV/Hz@1MHz,and the power supply reject ratio is -40dB@1MHz and less than -34dB in all frequency bands.The test results show that the phase noise of the PLL using this LDO is 6dBc@1kHz less and 2dBc@200kHz less than using conventional LDO.

Key words: low-dropout regulatorlow noiseSOCradio frequency receiver

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    Received: 18 August 2015 Revised: 08 April 2008 Online: Published: 01 August 2008

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      Mao Cui, He Lenian, Yan Xiaolang. A Novel Fully On-Chip CMOS Low-Dropout Linear Regulator with Ultra Low Noise[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2008, In Press. Mao C, He L N, Yan X L. A Novel Fully On-Chip CMOS Low-Dropout Linear Regulator with Ultra Low Noise[J]. J. Semicond., 2008, 29(8): 1602.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      Mao Cui, He Lenian, Yan Xiaolang. A Novel Fully On-Chip CMOS Low-Dropout Linear Regulator with Ultra Low Noise[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2008, In Press.

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      A Novel Fully On-Chip CMOS Low-Dropout Linear Regulator with Ultra Low Noise

      • Received Date: 2015-08-18
      • Accepted Date: 2008-02-21
      • Revised Date: 2008-04-08
      • Published Date: 2008-08-02

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