A novel buck/LDO dual-mode DC–DC converter for efficiency improvement

作     者：范世全 薛仲明 陆浩 赵慧 耿莉 

作者机构：School of Electronic and Information EngineeringXi’an Jiaotong University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Semiconductors》 (半导体学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第34卷第10期

页      面：91-96页

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学科分类：080801[工学-电机与电器] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.60971049 61271089) 

主　　题：high efficiency buck converter LDO regulator dual-mode converter multiplexing transistor 

摘      要：A novel buck/LDO dual-mode （BLDM） converter using a multiplexing power MOS transistor is proposed, which adaptively switches between buck mode and LDO mode to improve conversion efficiency. The chip was fabricated in a standard 0.35 #m CMOS process. Measurement results show that the peak efficiency is 97%. For the light load operation, the efficiency is improved by 14%. The efficiency keeps higher than 82.5% for the load current of 50 mA without any complex control or extra EMI due to the normal method of pulse frequency modulation （PFM） control used for improving the light load efficiency. It does not cost much extra chip area because no additional regulator PMOS is needed. It is more suitable for noise-restricted systems and battery-powered electronic devices for when battery voltage drops because of long hours of work.