The performance of the on-chip power supply directly affects the operating state and energy efficiency of the entire chip, and a low-dropout linear regulator (LDO) is usually used as its step-down power supply on the chip. However, with the increase of input and output voltage difference, the conversion efficiency of LDO decreases significantly. The conversion efficiency of the DC-DC converter is significantly better than LDO, and it does not change with the pressure difference, but it has inherent limitations in ripple suppression. In this thesis, a new chip power supply solution for Buck DC-DC converter based on COT control architecture is proposed. In terms of reducing ripple, the current feedback circuit is innovatively introduced to realize the decoupling of ripple and loop control signal. At the same time, multilayer ceramic capacitors with low equivalent series resistance are selected as the output filter element, so as to reduce the ripple and maintain the stability of the system at the same time. The module is designed based on SMIC 40 nm CMOS process. The test results show that the conversion efficiency of the power module under all working conditions is more than 83.5%. The maximum output voltage ripple is less than 1.2 mV, When the load changes suddenly, the voltage fluctuation is less than 11.1 mV.
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