A Single-Event Transient Radiation Hardened Low-Dropout Regulator for LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Responses of Single-Event Transients in the LDO
2.1. PLL Architecture
2.2. Responses of SET in LDO
3. The Proposed SET Hardened LDO Regulator
3.1. Proposed SET Radiation-Hardened (RH) Structure
3.2. Analysis
3.3. Simulations
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
ASET | analog single-event transient |
CP | charge pump |
DC | direct current |
DIV | frequency divider |
EA | error amplifier |
LDO | low-dropout regulator |
LPF | low-pass filter |
PLL | phase-locked loop |
PSRR | power-supply rejection ratio |
RH | radiation-hardened |
RHBD | radiation-hardened-by-design |
RHBP | radiation-hardened-by-process |
VCO | voltage-controlled oscillator |
SEE | single-event effect |
SET | single-event transient |
SEU | single-event upset |
SMPS | symmetrical multi-path splitting |
TMD | three-mode redundancy |
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Unhardened Structure | SMPS ( ) | SMPS ( ) | SMPS ( ) | |
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Power Loss (mW) | 11.46902 | 11.48909 | 11.48197 | 11.48194 |
Ref. No. | Ref. [27] | Ref. [23] | Ref. [31] | This Work |
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Method | time-skewed space-split | built-in filter | bulk tied to source | symmetrical multi-path splitting (SMPS) |
Technology | 180 nm | 180 nm | 40 nm | 28 nm |
ASET mitigation 1 | 63% | 64.6% | 75.8% | 80.8% |
Hardening level | circuit | circuit | transistor | circuit |
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Chen, X.; Guo, Q.; Yuan, H.; Guo, Y. A Single-Event Transient Radiation Hardened Low-Dropout Regulator for LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator. Symmetry 2022, 14, 788. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040788
Chen X, Guo Q, Yuan H, Guo Y. A Single-Event Transient Radiation Hardened Low-Dropout Regulator for LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator. Symmetry. 2022; 14(4):788. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040788
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Xi, Qiancheng Guo, Hengzhou Yuan, and Yang Guo. 2022. "A Single-Event Transient Radiation Hardened Low-Dropout Regulator for LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator" Symmetry 14, no. 4: 788. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040788
APA StyleChen, X., Guo, Q., Yuan, H., & Guo, Y. (2022). A Single-Event Transient Radiation Hardened Low-Dropout Regulator for LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator. Symmetry, 14(4), 788. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040788