| 摘要 |
A method and a circuit to achieve a low dropout voltage regulator having a constant high performance under all operating conditions, including the dropout region, have been accomplished. A regulated cascade structure is placed at the input of a current mirror and in connection with a voltage regulator output stage. In contrast to other applications the positive input of the error amplifier is not biased with a reference voltage but connected to the regulator output. Therefore the cascade structure regulates the voltage of the entry node of the current mirror to be equal to the output voltage of the regulator under all operating conditions of the regulator. Thus the transistors of the current mirror have always identical drain-source voltages. Therefore the regulator is kept in the optimal, balanced operating point, a constant high regulator loop gain is achieved and PSRR and load regulation performance is no more reduced under dropout operating conditions. <IMAGE>
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