LOW DROPOUT LINEAR REGULATOR AND CONTROL CIRCUIT THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20230130733A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17787350

    申请日:2020-09-04

    申请人: SG MICRO CORP

    发明人: Lidi Zhang

    IPC分类号: G05F1/573 G05F3/26 G05F1/575

    摘要: Disclosed is a low dropout linear voltage regulator and a control circuit thereof. The control circuit comprises an error amplifier, a foldback current-limiting protection circuit, an undershoot suppression circuit and an output detection circuit. The foldback current-limiting protection circuit limits the output current of power transistor and performs short circuit protection, the undershoot suppression circuit pulls the control terminal of the power transistor to low voltage level when the output voltage undershoots. The output detection circuit judges whether the output voltage rises to a preset voltage value in the startup stage, and before the output voltage rises to the preset voltage value, disables the undershoot suppression circuit and the foldback characteristic of the foldback current-limiting protection circuit, which can prevent normal startup of the circuit from being affected by a maloperation of the foldback current-limiting protection circuit and the undershoot suppression circuit during the startup process, improve on-load startup ability.

    LOW DROPOUT LINEAR REGULATOR AND CONTROL CIRCUIT THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20230122458A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US17790253

    申请日:2020-09-04

    申请人: SG MICRO CORP

    发明人: Lidi Zhang

    摘要: Disclosed is a low dropout linear voltage regulator and a control circuit thereof. The control circuit includes an error amplifier and a backflow prevention circuit, which compares an input voltage with an output voltage, to switch a substrate voltage and a voltage at a control terminal of the power transistor to a higher one of the input voltage and the output voltage, thus the power transistor and its parasitic diode can be turned off in time when the output voltage is greater than the input voltage, so as to prevent the power transistor from being damaged by current backflow and improve reliability of the low dropout linear regulator.