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发表于 2009-7-16 15:19:17
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reading this paper ,http://www.eetop.cn/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=158050&highlight=LDO%2BPSRR
you can understand the difference. The answer should be (B)
we can see that the pass device is PMOS, the PSRR is affected by two path, one is from the VDD,which is the source of PMOS.
The other one is from the preceding error amp.
The former signal path is a common-gate configuration, while the latter one is common-source configuration. Both of these two configurations have the same magnitude of signal gain, i.e. gm*rds. However, they have the opposite sign. So if the preceding error amp can pass the same power supply ripple just like that from the source of PMOS, they will cancel each other. In other words, the preceding error amp should conduct all the power supply noise without suppressing.
According to the above mentioned paper, the error amp with PMOS current-mirror connected to VDD can conduct all the power supply noise.
Similarly, if we use NMOS as pass device, it is connected as a source-follower configuration, which will pass any ripple from its gate. As a result, we need to suppress the ripple from its preceding error amp as small as possible. Therefore, we need error amp with NMOS current mirror load here, which can suppress the power supply noise greatly. |
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