A Fully Integrated High-Power-Supply-Rejection Linear Regulator With an Output-Supplied Voltage Reference

摘要

This study proposes an output capacitor-less linear regulator with high power supply rejection (PSR) for a wireless power transmission system. To achieve high PSR with a noisy input voltage, a fully integrated linear regulator with its reference circuit supplied by the output voltage is proposed. The proposed technique can isolate the reference circuit from the noisy $ext{V}_{IN}$ , thereby reducing the requirements of the conventional bulky low-pass filter loading the reference voltage node while achieving superior PSR performance. The regulator uses an N-type pass transistor and a dual-feedback structure to achieve wideband ripple-filtering and fast transient responses. The proposed regulator is compatible with typical biomedical implants requiring a 10mA load current at 1.1V output voltage while consuming a total quiescent current of $276~mu $ A. A PSR performance was measured to be −48 and −56 dB against the $ext{V}_{IN}$ and charge pump at 10 MHz, respectively. The unity gain bandwidth (UGB) of the regulator was 291MHz. The proposed regulator was fabricated using commercial TSMC 0.18- $mu ext{m}$ CMOS technology with an area of 0.1054 mm^{2 including the reference circuit.}