Low quiescent current variable output digital controlled voltage regulator

In this paper, a digital controlled push-pull linear voltage regulator is proposed. The designed regulator can provide a variable output voltage ranging from 0.5V to 1V in steps of 0.1V. It can supply a maximum of 100mA for each output level. A time interleaving control technique is also presented to enhance the output performance. By using UMC 65nm standard CMOS technology, the ripple of the output voltage when the load or output level changes is smaller than 10% of each specific output level. The current efficiency is 99.9% with only 126μA quiescent current.