Tags:Bond wire based Inductor, Buck Converter, Continuous Conduction Mode, DC-DC Power Converter, Flash ADC and IoT Applications
Abstract:
A Flash ADC-assisted fast transient response DC-DC buck converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed inductor-based DC-DC converter operates in continuous conduction mode (CCM). The novelty in architecture includes replacing SAR ADC with Flash ADC which converts the transient overshoot/undershoot into corresponding binary code at a faster rate as compared to SAR ADC. Depending on the overshoot and undershoot set criteria, the current pump injects the current into the output node to charge /discharge the output node to minimize the overshoot/undershoot and settling time. In the proposed design, required inductance is achieved by using bond-wire inductance, which reduces the chip's active area, and off-chip components. ADS simulations are performed for the estimation of inductor values using the QFN-64 package. The proposed DC-DC converter occupies an active area of 0.91mm2 using TSMC 130 nm bulk CMOS process. Post layout simulation results show the peak efficiency of 84% at Vin of 3.3 V, Vout of 1.8 V with the load current IL of 500 mA. The measured overshoot/undershoot in simulation is 70/60 mV with 530/469 ns recovery time and 7 mV output ripple. This enables the designed converter to be used in applications like aerospace, satellite, as well as military applications, where compactness is required.
A Bondwire Inductor Based Flash ADC Assisted DC-DC Buck Converter