Fully digital fast transient phase-locked digital LDO-embedded-MDLL for DVFS applications
In: Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Jg. 93 (2017-07-29), S. 123-136
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This paper presents a multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL) embedded with a frequency-only reference (FREF) based fully digital low-dropout regulator (DLDO) that outperforms conventional dynamic voltage and frequency scaling circuits when driving digital-load circuits that operate down to the near-threshold voltage level . We also propose a feed-forward acceleration (FFA) technique, which is dynamically activated only during the transient period to reduce the transient response time and voltage droop caused by the load current step. The proposed DLDO-embedded-MDLL was fabricated in a 40 nm CMOS process and occupies an active area of 0.02 mm2. At the typical VIN = 1.2 V and FREF = 37.4 MHz, the regulated range of voltage was measured to be 0.56---1.16 V while the frequency being scaled from 0.411 to 2.35 GHz. With the proposed FFA technique, the load transient response and voltage droop were reduced by 61.5 and 35%, respectively, compared to the values during normal loop operation. In addition, the measured phase noise at 0.411 and 2.35 GHz was less than ź116 and ź104 dBc/Hz, respectively, both at 1 MHz offset.
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Fully digital fast transient phase-locked digital LDO-embedded-MDLL for DVFS applications
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hwang, In-Chul ; Muhammad Abrar Akram |
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Zeitschrift: | Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Jg. 93 (2017-07-29), S. 123-136 |
Veröffentlichung: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017 |
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ISSN: | 1573-1979 (print) ; 0925-1030 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10470-017-1028-x |
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