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Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Alan Sankman, Dallas, TX (US);

Raveesh Magod Ramakrishna, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/575 (2006.01); G05F 1/59 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/59 (2013.01); G05F 1/575 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a battery. The system also includes a low dropout regulator (LDO) circuit with an input coupled to the battery and the LDO circuit. The system also includes a load coupled to an output of the LDO circuit. The LDO circuit includes an error amplifier and a control circuit coupled to the error amplifier. The LDO circuit also includes a first pass transistor coupled to the control circuit and configured to provide a first pass current as a function of load current according to a first continuous conduction curve. The LDO circuit also includes a second pass transistor coupled to the control circuit and configured to provide a second pass current as a function of load current according to a second continuous conduction curve.


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