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    Angelo De Carmine Headshot
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    Angelo De Carmine
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    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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    Abstract

    This paper proposes an analog-assisted digital output capacitor-less low-drop out (LDO) regulator. At full load, the digital loop supplies greater than 90% of the load whereas the rest is supplied by the analog loop. The analog loop regulates the output accurately eliminating the limit cycle oscillations and quantization error due to a standalone digital LDO. The analogloop is implemented with a flipped source follower architecture to achieve lower output impedance and higher bandwidth. The digital loop employs 32-bit shift register to control the discrete set of power-FETs. A fast clock(250MHz) is used to speed up the digital loop during load transients and use a slow clock(10MHz) at steady state to save power. The LDO uses only 1pF of compensation capacitor and consumes a quiescent current of 17.3uA. The proposed LDO was implemented in TSMC-65nm for an input of 1.2 V, output of 1V and achieves settling time less than 110ns with undershoot/overshoot of 26mV/50mV for 0.1-10mA/100ns load step.

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