Electricity: power supply or regulation systems – Output level responsive – Using a three or more terminal semiconductive device as the...
Patent
1997-06-03
1999-12-07
Nguyen, Matthew
Electricity: power supply or regulation systems
Output level responsive
Using a three or more terminal semiconductive device as the...
G05F 156
Patent
active
059989815
ABSTRACT:
A voltage regulator for DRAM chips having known short duration high current load events started by a trigger signal includes a regulating transistor operating in the weak inversion mode and a boost driver circuit. The trigger signal that starts the load event also triggers the boost driver circuit to produce a shaped boost signal at the correct time. The boost signal is applied to the gate of the regulating transistor to counteract the expected voltage drop at the output of the regulating transistor. The expected voltage drop is due to the known characteristics of the regulating transistor which include a change in threshold voltage of the regulating transistor during the high current flow of the load event. A switch device disconnects a preregulator during the load event and reconnects the preregulator thereafter. The boost signal is preferably applied to the regulating transistor through a capacitive divider.
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Houghton Russell J.
Parent Richard M.
Wilson Adam B.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Nguyen Matthew
Peterson Peter W.
Walsh Robert A.
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