This paper presents an external capacitor-less NMOS low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator integrated with a standard CSMC 0.6 µm BiCMOS technology. Over a −55 • C to +125 • C temperature range, the fabricated LDO provides a stable and considerable amount of 3 A output current over wide ranges of output capacitance C OUT (from zero to hundreds of µF) and effective-series-resistance (ESR) (from tens of milliohms to several ohms). A low dropout voltage of 200 mV has been realised by accurate modelling. Operating with an input voltage ranging from 2.2 V to 5.5 V provides a scalable output voltage from 0.8 V to 3.6 V. When the load current jumps from 100 mA to 3 A within 3 µs, the output voltage overshoot remains as low as 50 mV without output capacitance, C OUT. The system bandwidth is about 2 MHz, and hardly changes with load altering to ensure system stability. To improve the load transient response and driving capacity of the NMOS power transistor, a buffer with high input impedance and low output impedance is applied between the transconductance amplifier and the NMOS power transistor. The total area of fabricated LDO voltage regulator chip including pads is 2.1 mm×2.2 mm.
At present, there are many complex and diverse bus interface standards in the field of sensor measurement and control, which leads that different sensors unable to be compatible with different field networks, thus increasing the difficulty of data acquisition and processing. In order to improve the compatibility and the intelligent level of sensors, in this work, a novel intelligent sensor interface model defined by IEEE1451.2 standard is proposed. Finally, the self-recognition, plug and play (PNP) functions are verified on FPGA platform.
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