Selection of LDO power supply rejection ratio and noise in RF circuit Selection of LDO power supply rejection ratio and noise in RF circuit Introduction The power supply design of portable products requires system-level thinking. When developing battery-powered devices, such as mobile phones, MP3, PDA, PMP, DSC and other low-power products, if the power system design is unreasonable, it will affect the architecture of the entire system, the combination of product features, component selection, software design and power allocation. Similarly, in system design, more consideration should be given to saving battery energy. Low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) with enable control are a good choice. Power supply requirements for RF circuits Most cellular phone baseband chipsets require three sets of power supplies for RF circuits: to meet the needs of digital circuits, analog circuits and peripheral interface circuits. The typical value of the digital circuit power supply voltage of the baseband processor is 1.8V to 2.6V. Under normal circumstances, the phone will be turned off when the Li-ion battery voltage drops to 3.2V-3.3V. The LDO has a voltage difference of at least 500 to 600mV, and the voltage difference requirement is not high. In addition, the digital circuit itself does not have high requirements for the output noise and PSRR (power supply rejection ratio) of the LDO, and only requires extremely low quiescent current under light load conditions. The typical supply voltage of the analog circuit inside the baseband processor is 2.4V to 3.0V, and the voltage difference is 200mV to 600mV. The LDO is required to have a high low-frequency (217Hz for GSM phones) ripple suppression capability to eliminate the battery voltage ripple generated by the RF power amplifier, and a lower quiescent current index is also required. The typical supply voltage of the receiving and transmitting parts of the RF circuit is 2.6V to 3.0V, among which the low noise amplifier (LNA), mixer, phase-locked loop (PLL), voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and intermediate frequency (IF) circuit require low-noise, high PSRR LDO. In practical applications, the performance of the VCO and PLL circuits directly affects the RF circuit indicators, such as the purity of the transmission spectrum, the selectivity of the receiver, the noise of the analog transceiver, the phase error of the digital circuit, etc. Noise will change the phase-frequency and amplitude-frequency characteristics of the oscillator, and the oscillator loop will further amplify the noise, which may modulate the carrier. LDO Noise and Power Supply Rejection Ratio LDO is a micro-power low-dropout linear regulator with extremely low self-noise and high power supply rejection ratio. The block diagram of the linear regulator is shown in Figure 1. ……
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