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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited, London, GB;
Inventor:
Rainer Krenzke, Esslingen, DE;
Assignee:
Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited, London, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/565 (2006.01); G05F 1/575 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/575 (2013.01);
Abstract
Circuits and methods to compensate leakage current of a LDO regulator are disclosed. The compensation is achieved by a temperature dependent sink current generation, matched with its temperature dependency characteristic to the LDO regulator output transistor leakage, which has a nearly zero current consumption increase of about 50 nA at room temperature and starts sink current at temperatures about above 85 to 125 degrees Celsius, which is corresponding to a range of temperature wherein leakage currents come into account.