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A Low 1/f Noise CMOS Low-Dropout Regulator with Current-Mode Feedback Buffer Amplifier Wonseok Oh, Bertan Bakkaloglu, Bhaskar Aravind*, Siew Kuok Hoon* Arizona State University *Texas Instruments Inc Motivation for Local Supply Management • With the reduction of the supply voltage, noise and cross-coupling on the power supply line starts playing a dominant role in an RF transceiver noise budget. • Synthesizer and TCXO phase noise, LNA and mixer noise figure, and adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) of the PA are heavily influenced by the supply noise and ripple. • Linear low dropout (LDO) regulators shield sensitive blocks from high frequency fluctuations on the power supply and provide high accuracy, fast response supply regulation Application Example: RF Synthesizers AGGRESSORS AND VICTIMS: • PFD/CP Drivers/Multimodulus dividers generate high current spikes with spectral content that can corrupt global supply. • Low slew rate clock xtal osc./xtal buffers/drivers/VCO are sensitive to supply noise. Supply partitioning should not only isolate noise into sensitive blocks but should also improve kickback from noisy blocks into global supply plane. Low Dropout (LDO) Regulators : Conventional Architecture Pros Cons High PSR (~50dB @ 10KHz) High 1/f noise Low Dropout Voltage Slow transient response Good Line Regulation Potential peaking in PSR (ΔVout/ΔIout) response Good Line Regulation (ΔVout/ ΔVin) Low Dropout (LDO) Regulators : Noise Analysis • Bandgap noise V2ref