An LDO Circuit Design Based On On-chip Compensation

This paper proposes a liner low-dropout regulator (LDO) circuit using on-chip steady-state compensation technology. Firstly, a bandgap reference is designed with low temperature drift and low power consumption. Secondly, the on-chip compensation is adopted in the LDO, which can avoid the use of large off-chip capacitors and reduce the layout area of the LDO circuit. The circuit performances are verified in the TSMC 180 nm CMOS process. Test results show that temperature coefficient of the bandgap reference circuit is as low as 4.3 × 10-6 °C in the temperature range of -40°C to 125°C. The static current under the 3V power supply voltage is 4 μA. The LDO output voltage Vout is 1.8V . And the core area of the chip is 0.0848 mm2.