Low drop-out regulator circuit, chip and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9952609-B2
Application number	US-201515327916-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 18, 2015
Priority date	Aug 19, 2014
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A low dropout linear regulator circuit comprises a voltage reference source module ( 100 ), an error amplifier ( 200 ), a reference voltage determining module ( 300 ), a power transmission device ( 400 ) and a feedback module ( 500 ); wherein the voltage reference source module ( 100 ) provides a reference voltage for the error amplifier ( 200 ), the reference voltage determining module ( 300 ) controls an enablement of the error amplifier ( 200 ) according to whether the voltage reference source module ( 100 ) is completely started, the error amplifier ( 200 ) controls ON/OFF of the power transmission device ( 400 ) according to the reference voltage provided by the voltage reference source module ( 100 ) and a feedback voltage provided by the feedback module ( 500 ). A chip having the above low dropout linear regulator circuit and a electronic device having the above chip are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A low dropout linear regulator circuit, comprising: a voltage reference source module, an error amplifier, a reference voltage determining module, a power transmission device, and a feedback module; wherein the voltage reference source module provides a reference voltage for the error amplifier, the reference voltage determining module controls an enablement of the error amplifier according to whether the voltage reference source module is completely started, the error amplifier controls ON/OFF of the power transmission device according to the reference voltage provided by the voltage reference source module and a feedback voltage provided by the feedback module.

2. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 1 , characterized in that, the circuit further comprises an input voltage terminal;
the voltage reference source module comprises a first out connected to an inverting input of the error amplifier, and a second output connected to a determining signal input of the reference voltage determining module;
the reference voltage determining module comprises the determining signal input, and a determining signal output connected to an enable of the error amplifier;
the error amplifier comprises the inverting input, the enable, an amplification signal output connected to a control terminal of the power transmission device, and a non-inverting input connected to a feedback terminal of the feedback module;
the power transmission device comprises the control terminal, a switching input connected to the input voltage terminal, and a switching output connected to a current input of the feedback module; and
the feedback module comprises the feedback terminal and the current input.

3. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 2 , characterized in that, the reference voltage determining module further comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and a fourth transistor; wherein the third transistor and the second transistor forms a mirror current source, the input voltage terminal provides a reference current for the mirror current source;
a gate of the first transistor serves as the determining signal input, which is configured to control a gate of the second transistor to turn on the input voltage terminal or to be grounded;
a first electrode of the fourth transistor is connected to a common-gate terminal of the mirror current source, a second electrode of the fourth transistor is grounded, which is configured to control the mirror current source to provide a determining signal for the error amplifier.

4. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 3 , characterized in that, the input voltage terminal is connected to a first electrode of the first transistor, the first electrode of the second transistor, and a gate of the fourth transistor; second electrodes of the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor and the fourth transistor are grounded; the gate of the second transistor and a gate of the third transistor are connected to serve as the common-gate terminal of the mirror current source, the first electrode and the gate of the second transistor are short-connected, a first electrode of the third transistor serves as the determining signal output terminal.

5. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 3 , characterized in that, the circuit further comprises a first load network and a second load network; the input voltage terminal is connected to a first electrode of the first transistor by the first load network, the input voltage terminal is connected to a gate of the fourth transistor by the first load network, the input voltage terminal is connected to the first electrode of the second transistor by the second load network.

6. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 5 , characterized in that, the first load network is a first resistor, and the second load network is a second resistor.

7. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 5 , characterized in that, the first load network is a fifth transistor, and the second load network is a sixth transistor, the voltage reference source module is connected to a gate of the fifth transistor and a gate of the sixth transistor to provide a bias voltage.

8. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 2 , characterized in that, the feedback module further comprises a third resistor and a fourth resistor, the current input terminal is grounded by the third resistor and the fourth resistor, a junction of the third resistor and the fourth resistor serves as the feedback terminal.

9. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 1 characterized in that, the power transmission device is a field effect transistor.

10. The low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 1 , characterized in that, further comprising a starting circuit module, the starting circuit module is configured to control starting of the voltage reference source module.

11. A chip, comprising a low dropout linear regulator circuit of claim 1 .

12. An electronic device, comprising a chip of claim 11 .

Assignees

• Csmc Technologies Fab1 Co Ltd
• Csmc Tech Fabi Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Nan
• Zhou Jing

Classifications

• G05F1/56

  using semiconductor devices in series with the load as final control devices (G05F1/461 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05F1/468 Primary

  characterised by reference voltage circuitry, e.g. soft start, remote shutdown · CPC title

• G05F1/575

  characterised by the feedback circuit · CPC title