Power Management IC Design

Master Trainer: Prof Philip Mok

Date : 5-6^th Dec 2011

Early Bird Price Before 1^st Nov 2011 : S$1300.00 per pax

Price After 1^st Nov 2011: S$1500.00 per pax

Course Content

DC-DC Converter Design for Embedded Power Management System

Due to the continuous growth of the power management for highly integrated systems, the design of the DC-DC converters becomes very challenging. This short course starts with a brief overview on the fundamental of switching converter design together with the design consideration for these converters for embedded applications. A detailed explanation on the operation and design of switching converter will be presented. The practicing engineers taking this course will learn the integrated circuit designs of the power stage, gate drive circuit, and different control mechanisms with their implementations. Analog circuit techniques for on-chip current sensor, slope compensation for current-mode control DC-DC converter will be covered. Some advanced converter topologies and techniques will also be discussed.

CMOS Low Dropout Regulators

This short course starts with a brief overview on the fundamental of linear regulator and low drop-out regulator (LDO) design together with the design consideration for these regulators for embedded applications. A detailed explanation on the operation and design of LDO design will be covered. The practicing engineers taking this course will learn the stability and compensation techniques of the CMOS LDO. Some advanced fast-transient LDO topologies and techniques will also be discussed.

Bandgap References

In this short course, bandgap reference (BGR) fundamentals and the development of CMOS BGRs will be covered. Topics include op-amp based and non-op-amp based BGRs. The practicing engineers taking this course will learn the stability issues arose from negative and positive feedback; loop frequency response and power supply rejection; and startup issues, trimming and design of resistor strings. Some special advanced low-voltage BGR topologies will also be discussed.

About Prof Philip Mok

Philip K. T. Mok received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1986, 1989 and 1995, respectively. In January 1995, he joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, where he is currently a full Professor. His current research interests include analogue integrated circuit techniques for power management circuits and low-voltage analogue integrated circuits design. He has been a member of the International Technical Program Committees of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2005-2010 and he has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II from 2005-2007, Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I from 2007-2009, and Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 2006-2011.