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rf_jay
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ON chip LDO
Sep 25th, 2007, 8:13am
 
Hi,

need help in LDO design.

The load is onchip.
When i use a off chip big cap(1uF), the load regulation suffers because of bond pad inductance coming inbetween the load and Cap.

Having a cap onchip more than 300pF is difficult. the load regulation transient still suffers with big spikes. also i need high bandwidth opamp and stability is still an issue.

Please key in your inputs in this regard.

Thanks in advance.



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Re: ON chip LDO
Reply #1 - Sep 25th, 2007, 11:41am
 
rf_jay,

A couple of thoughts that might help.

You can compensate the load regulation issues by adding a zero to your feedback loop.  If you put a small value resistor between the output of your op amp and the bondpad, you may find improved transient response.

You can try multiple bondpads in parallel to reduce the series inductance.

You can try to partition the total load cap between a small on-chip local supply, and an off-chip low impedance point.  (you may need a buffer between these).

Good luck,
Carl
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Re: ON chip LDO
Reply #2 - Sep 26th, 2007, 12:02am
 
I found a TAMU Thesis that talks about No-External-Cap LDO interesting to read.
Not sure If you had already seen this and how far it's useful for your problem.  ;)

Give a read. Link is :
http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/3275/1/etd-tamu-2005C-ELEN-Milliken.pdf...

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Packiaraj.V.
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