Semiconductor Integrated Circuits

A voltage-mode DC—DC buck converter with fast output voltage-tracking speed and wide output voltage range

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2014 Chinese Institute of Electronics
, , Citation Yang Miao et al 2014 J. Semicond. 35 055005 DOI 10.1088/1674-4926/35/5/055005

1674-4926/35/5/055005

Abstract

A high switching frequency voltage-mode buck converter with fast voltage-tracking speed and wide output voltage range has been proposed. A novel error amplifier (EA) is presented to achieve a high DC gain and get high phase margin, including a resistor and capacitor net, a unit gain block and a high gain block. The investigated converter has been fabricated with GF 0.35 μm CMOS process and can operate at 6 MHz with the output voltage range from 0.6 to 3.4 V. The experimental results show that the voltage-tracking speed can achieve 8.8 μs/V for up-tracking and 6 μs/V for down-tracking. Besides, the recovery time is less than 8 μs while the load current suddenly changes 400 mA.

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10.1088/1674-4926/35/5/055005