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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2013
Tower Semiconductor Ltd., Migdal Haemek, IL;
Valentin Lerner, Petah Tikva, IL;
Danny Pollak, Kadima, IL;
Tower Semiconductor Ltd., Migdal Haemek, IL;
Abstract
A self-adjustable current source control circuit utilizes a replica output stage, a sink current source that generates a reference current, and a negative feedback circuit to generate a sink current between a linear regulator output terminal and ground only when a load circuit connected to the linear regulator is in a low power consuming state. The replica output stage includes an 1:N scaled replica of the linear regulator's NMOS (or NPN) output stage transistor, and the negative feedback circuit utilizes two PMOS (or PNP) negative feedback transistors having the same N:1 size ratio and connected as a common gate amplifier, whereby one of the two negative feedback transistors turns on to draw the desired sink current from the regulator output terminal only when the load current falls below N times the reference current (i.e., only the load current is drawn through the output stage transistor during high load current conditions).