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What MOS should be used (N-type or P-type) in LDO driver?

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About LDO driver

i have a question, The dirver MOS of LDO is used. what different the MOS use N-type or P-type??? Using NMOS driver have some advantage???
 

About LDO driver

I think that NMOS need much higher Vth than PMOS.
Its Vgs which controls Vout is not very easily achieved. So we prefer PMOS.
 

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wenchi said:
i have a question, The dirver MOS of LDO is used. what different the MOS use N-type or P-type??? Using NMOS driver have some advantage???

use nmos has lower ouput impedance and no need external capacitor for
compensation.
 

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it easier to get larger phase margin and high gain using NMOS.But it depends on your overhead voltage to select NMOS or PMOS
 

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use nmos has lower ouput impedance and no need external capacitor for
compensation.[/quote]
why?
 

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pmos can work up to very low voltages,coz it requires less gate drive.
but it will have large pole.,
need to be careful in compensation.
for nmos it wont work at low frequencies.,
but it will have higher current capability,so more gm and pole at higher distances coz of high transconductances.
 

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Nmos have more advantage phase margin than pmos, but it need higher vdd than pmos.
 

About LDO driver

no, NMOS needs a voltage supply HIGHER than vdd to achieve low dropout, such as an on-board charge pump. If you can accept this (takes a lot of supply current when the pump is running) then NMOS will beat PMOS every time in both device size and ease of compensation. Also, with less poles you can usually get the bandwidth (response) of the NMOS device higher.
 

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large pole = pole at low freq ?
 

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davidwong said:
large pole = pole at low freq ?

unfortunately yes. it's related to opamp's output resistance and pass device gate capacity.
you may use a buffer to move it in higher frequencies

regards
 

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