Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs)

Overview

Main description

Comprehensive information on LDO regulators—used in almost all electronic applications

This book shows you how to design, analyze, and build linear low-dropout (LDO) regulator ICs in bipolar, CMOS, and biCMOS semiconductor process technologies. Using the example of a real-world design cycle in the analog IC industry, this expert tool explains the art of analog IC design from a physical and electrical perspective, rather than a theoretical one. Filled with over 200 detailed illustrations, Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs) features step-bystep coverage of system considerations, microelectronic devices, negative feedback, AC design, IC design, and SoC, SiP, and SoP design.

Table of contents

1. System Considerations
1-1 Regulators in Power Management
1-2 Linear vs. Switching Regulators
1-3 Market Demand
1-4 Batteries
1-5 Circuit Operation
1-6 Specifications
1-7 Simulations
1-8 Summary
2. Microelectronic Devices
2-1 Passives
2-2 PN-Junction Diodes
2-3 Bipolar-Junction Transistors
2-4 MOSFETs
2-5 JFETs
2-6 Summary
3. Analog Building Blocks
3-1 Single-Transistor Amplifiers
3-2 Differntial Pairs
3-3 Current Mirror
4. Negative Feedback
5. AC Design
6. IC Design
7. SoC, SiP, SoP design

Author comments

Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora is a professor at Georgia Tech.