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Message started by dxt78 on May 5^th, 2011, 12:16pm

Title: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by dxt78 on May 5^th, 2011, 12:16pm

Hello,
I am looking into voltage regulators, but so far am having difficulty finding good references to learn about them. Are there some references, such as papers, textbooks, tutorials, etc, that discuss voltage regulators and transistor level designs?
Thanks.

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by RobG on May 6^th, 2011, 11:42am

Are you looking for references for bandgap and other references? Or for voltage regulators (like low drop-out regulators, charge pumps, etc.)

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by loose-electron on May 8^th, 2011, 3:00pm

There is some stuff in the IEEE JSSC but a ;ot of it is older. Stuff that is "new" in voltage regulators, is all fairly old.

Dig thru the IEEE JSSC for stuff, but some of its gong to be 20-30 years back.

Books? Not sure whats out there.

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by dxt78 on May 10^th, 2011, 2:05pm

Hi RobG and looseelectron - thanks very much for the replies. I guess I'm just looking for more of an authoritative and "tutorial" type reference. The JSSC stuff is sometimes just papers describing what they did, but not actually how it works and perhaps how they designed it.

Anyway, these two I thought were quite good:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slva072/slva072.pdf
http://www.national.com/appinfo/power/files/f4.pdf

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by Alexandar on May 11^th, 2011, 2:17am

The only book I can think of is "Current Efficient, Low Voltage, Low Dropout Regulators" by Rincon-Mora. Not very advanced, but for starters it's okay I think. =)

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/rincon-mora//publicat/books/thesis/

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by dxt78 on May 11^th, 2011, 12:40pm

Alexander,
Actually I was just looking at that today and found it to be a very useful reference! Many thanks.

I also found this to be quite a good resource: https://dspace.ist.utl.pt/bitstream/2295/154218/1/thesis.pdf

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by Alexandar on May 12^th, 2011, 12:17am

From the same website there is another dissertation as well:

https://dspace.ist.utl.pt/bitstream/2295/329831/1/LDO.pdf

I cannot say anything about the quality, as I haven't read those. Anyhow, have fun reading! =)

Title: Re: voltage reference design - references and sources
Post by dxt78 on May 20^th, 2011, 8:19am

Thank you Alexandar