Self-adaptive fast-response ldo circuit and chip thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12422876-B2
Application number	US-202318167750-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2023
Priority date	Aug 10, 2020
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed are a self-adaptive fast-response LDO circuit and a chip thereof. Said circuit includes a band gap reference circuit, an error amplifier, a power tube, a feedback resistor network, and a self-adaptive acceleration response circuit. The current of the power tube is mirrored by means of the self-adaptive acceleration response circuit, such that the tail current of a differential circuit in the error amplifier can accelerate charging and discharging adaptively according to load changes of the LDO circuit. In addition, before the LDO circuit is stably balanced, the characteristics of unbalanced states of two differential input ends of the error amplifier are used to perform fast charging and discharging on the tail current of the differential circuit and a gate electrode of the power tube in an extremely short time, such that the response time of the LDO circuit is greatly reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A self-adaptive low dropout regulator (LDO) circuit, comprising a band gap reference circuit, an error amplifier, a power transistor, a feedback resistor network, and a self-adaptive acceleration response circuit, wherein an output end of the band gap reference circuit is connected with a non-inverting input end of the error amplifier, an inverting input end of the error amplifier is connected with the feedback resistor network, an output of the error amplifier is connected with a gate electrode of the power transistor, the error amplifier and the power transistor are respectively connected with the self-adaptive acceleration response circuit, and a drain electrode of the power transistor is connected with the feedback resistor network;
wherein the self-adaptive acceleration response circuit comprises an acceleration charging circuit, a self-adaptive acceleration charging and discharging circuit, and an acceleration discharging circuit;
wherein:
the non-inverting input end and the inverting input end of the error amplifier are two differential input ends; a gate electrode of a PMOS transistor of a differential pair of the error amplifier is used as the non-inverting input end of the error amplifier to receive a reference voltage, and a drain electrode of the PMOS transistor is connected with a drain electrode of an NMOS transistor, a gate electrode of the NMOS transistor is connected with a first node, which is used as a first output end of the error amplifier corresponding to a reference voltage end of the error amplifier; a gate electrode of another PMOS transistor of the differential pair of the error amplifier is used as the inverting input end of the error amplifier to receive a feedback voltage, and a drain electrode of the another PMOS transistor is connected with a drain electrode of another NMOS transistor, a gate electrode of the another NMOS transistor is connected with a second node, which is used as a second output end of the error amplifier corresponding to a feedback voltage end of the error amplifier; source electrodes of the PMOS transistor and the another PMOS transistor of the differential pair are connected together as a tail current end of the error amplifier;
the acceleration charging circuit is configured to accelerate the charging process of the differential pair of the error amplifier and comprises a first N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, a first P-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, a second PMOS transistor, a third PMOS transistor, a fourth PMOS transistor, and a second NMOS transistor, wherein a gate electrode of the first NMOS transistor is connected with the first node, a drain electrode of the first NMOS transistor is respectively connected with a drain electrode and a gate electrode of the first PMOS transistor, the gate electrode of the first PMOS transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the second PMOS transistor, a drain electrode of the second PMOS transistor is respectively connected with a drain electrode and a gate electrode of the third PMOS transistor and a drain electrode of the second NMOS transistor, the gate electrode of the third PMOS transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the fourth PMOS transistor, a drain electrode of the fourth PMOS transistor is connected with the tail current end of the error amplifier, and a gate electrode of the second NMOS transistor is connected with the second node, source electrodes of the first PMOS transistor, the second PMOS transistor, the third PMOS transistor and the fourth PMOS transistor are connected with a VDD, and source electrodes of the first NMOS transistor and the second NMOS transistor are grounded;
the self-adaptive acceleration charging and discharging circuit is respectively connected with the gate electrode of the power transistor and the tail current end of the differential pair of the error amplifier, to adaptively accelerate both charging and discharging by dynamically balancing a tail current of the tail current end based on load changes; and
the acceleration discharging circuit is respectively connected with the first node, the second node and the gate electrode of the power transistor, to control a discharging speed of a gate voltage of the power transistor.

2. The self-adaptive LDO circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
the first NMOS transistor, the first PMOS transistor and the second PMOS transistor mirror the current through the NMOS transistor in a preset ratio to obtain a first current, and the second NMOS transistor mirrors the current through the another NMOS transistor in a preset ratio to obtain a second current; and when the second current is greater than the first current, a first differential sub-current is obtained according to a difference between the second current and the first current and is output to the third PMOS transistor, and the first differential sub-current is mirrored by the fourth PMOS transistor and then output to the error amplifier as the tail current.

3. The self-adaptive LDO circuit according to claim 2 , wherein
the acceleration charging circuit further comprises a third NMOS transistor, a fourth NMOS transistor, a fifth PMOS transistor, a sixth PMOS transistor, a seventh PMOS transistor, and an eighth PMOS transistor, wherein a gate electrode of the third NMOS transistor is connected with the first node, which corresponds to the first output end of the error amplifier corresponding to the reference voltage end of the error amplifier, a drain electrode of the third NMOS transistor is respectively connected with a drain electrode of the sixth PMOS transistor and a drain electrode and a gate electrode of the seventh PMOS transistor, the gate electrode of the seventh PMOS transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the eighth PMOS transistor, a drain electrode of the eighth PMOS transistor is connected with the tail current end of the error amplifier, a gate electrode of the fourth NMOS transistor is connected with the second node, which corresponds to the second output end of the error amplifier corresponding to the feedback voltage end of the error amplifier, a drain electrode of the fourth NMOS transistor is connected with a drain electrode and a gate electrode of the fifth PMOS transistor, and the gate electrode of the fifth PMOS transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the sixth PMOS transistor, source electrodes of the fifth PMOS transistor, the sixth PMOS transistor, the seventh PMOS transistor and the eighth PMOS transistor are connected with the VDD, and source electrodes of the third NMOS transistor and the fourth NMOS transistor are grounded.

4. The self-adaptive LDO circuit according to claim 3 , wherein
the third NMOS transistor mirrors the current through the NMOS transistor in a preset ratio to obtain a fifth current, and the fourth NMOS transistor, the fifth PMOS transistor and the sixth PMOS transistor mirror the current through the another NMOS transistor in a preset ratio to obtain a sixth current; and when the sixth current is greater than the fifth current, a second differential sub-current is obtained according to a difference between the sixth current and the fifth current and is output to the seventh PMOS transistor, and the second differential sub-current is mirrored by the eighth PMOS transistor and then output to the error amplifier as the tail current.

5. The self-adaptive LDO circuit according to claim 4 , wherein
the self-adaptive acceleration charging and discharging circuit comprises a ninth PMOS transistor, wherein a gate electrode of the ninth PMOS transistor is connected with the gate electrode of the power transistor, and a drain electrode of the ninth PMOS transistor is connected with the tail current end of the error amplifier.

6. The self-adaptive

Assignees

• Vanchip Tianjin Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gao Chenyang
• Lin Sheng

Classifications

• G05F1/565

  sensing a condition of the system or its load in addition to means responsive to deviations in the output of the system, e.g. current, voltage, power factor (G05F1/563 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05F3/26 Primary

  Current mirrors · CPC title

• G05F3/30 Primary

  Regulators using the difference between the base-emitter voltages of two bipolar transistors operating at different current densities (G05F3/26 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05F1/575 Primary

  characterised by the feedback circuit · CPC title

• G05F3/262 Primary

  using field-effect transistors only · CPC title