
RC2951
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
6
.
** Drive with TTL-high to shut down. Ground or leave open if shutdown feature is not to be used.
Figure 2. Adjustable Regulator
The complete equation for the output voltage is
Adding the error term,
where V
REF
is the nominal 1.235 reference voltage and I
FB
is the feedback pin bias current, nominally -20 nA. The
minimum recommended load current of 1
m
A forces an
upper limit of 1.2 M
W
on the value of R
2
, if the regulator
must work with no load (a condition often found in CMOS in
standby). I
FB
will produce a 2% typical error in V
OUT
which
may be eliminated at room temperature by trimming R
1
.
For better accuracy, choosing R
2
= 100k reduces this error
to 0.17% while increasing the resistor program current to
12
m
A. Since the RC2951 typically draws 60
m
A at no load
with Pin 2 open-circuited, this is a small price to pay.
Reducing Output Noise
In reference applications it may be advantageous to reduce
the AC noise present at the output. One method is to reduce
the regulator bandwidth by increasing the size of the output
capacitor.
Noise can be reduced fourfold by a bypass capacitor across
R
1
, since it reduces the high frequency gain from 4 to unity.
Pick
2
p
R
1
200Hz
·
or about 0.01
m
F. When doing this, the output capacitor must
be increased to 3.3
m
F to maintain stability. These changes
reduce the output noise from 430
m
V to 100
m
V rms for a
100 kHz bandwidth at 5V output. With the bypass capacitor
added, noise no longer scales with output voltage so that
improvements are more dramatic at higher output voltages.
RC2951
3.3
μ
F
100K
Error
Output
ERROR
**Shutdown
Input
1.23V
1.2
30V
7
4
1
8
5
3
.01
μ
F
+
+
R
2
R
1
V
REF
+V
IN
+V
IN
V
OUT
V
OUT
SD
GND
FB
2950-11
V
OUT
V
REF
1
R
1
R
2
------
+
è
=
V
OUT
V
REF
1
R
1
R
2
------
+
è
I
FB
R
1
+
·
=
V
R
2
-------------
V
R
1
+
R
2
-------------------
=
V
OUT
V
REF
R
-------------------
R
2
+
R
2
è
=
V
OUT
V
REF
1
R
1
R
2
------
+
è
=
V
OUT
V
REF
1
R
1
R
2
------
+
è
I
FB
R
2
+
=
C
BYPASS
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