HIGH-PRECISION VOLTAGE REGULAT OR
S-812XXSG Series
Seiko Instruments Inc. 13
Operation
1 Basic operation
Figure 4 shows the block diagr am of t he S-812XXSG Series.
The error amplifier compares a ref er ence voltage VREF with a
part of t he out put voltage fed back by the feedback resistor s
RA and RB. It supplies the cont r ol t ransistor wit h t he gat e
current, necessar y to keep a st able out put voltage range not
influenced by input voltage or tem per at ur e fluctuation.
VIN
Error amplifier
RB
RA
Current
source
-
+
VOUT
GND
*
Reference
voltage
circuit
* Parasitic diode
Figure 4 Reference block diagram
2 Inter nal circuit
2.1 Reference voltage circuit
In a voltage regulator, t he r eference voltage cir cuit plays
a very important r ole because any change will show up
directly at an output.
The S-812XXSG Series has 0. 8 V t ypical stable voltage
circuit as a highly stable reference volt age sour ce.
Features:
Low power consumption
Good temperature char acteristic
2.2 Error amplifier
The error amplifier consumes very low current because it
is a differential amplif ier in a stable current circuit.
Features:
Good matching characterist ics
Wide oper at ing voltage range
Low offset volt age
2.3 Control transistor
The S-812XXSG Series has a Pch MO S transistor as a
current cont r ol transistor shown in Figur e 6. Therefore
an output curr ent IOUT is expressed by the following
formula where is only a small diff er ence between input
and output voltages:
IOUT=KP{2(VGS-VTP) (VIN-VOUT)-(VIN-VOUT)2 }
* KP : Conductive coefficiency
VTP : Threshold voltage of a control transistor
Setting KP to t he lar ge value results in a voltage
regulator with 160 mV typical I/O voltage difference.
VIN-
VIN+
GND
VIN
VOUT
Figure 5 Error amplifier
Bias
VIN
VOUT
GND
VGS
VREF -
+*
* Parasitic diode
Figure 6 Control transistor
NOTE: A parasitic diode is generated between VIN and VOUT.
If the electric potential of VIN is higher than that of
VOUT, IC may break because of a reverse current.
Keep VOUT less than VIN+0.3 V.