WO2003058369A2 - Voltage regulator with voltage droop compensation - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- This invention relates to a voltage regulator with voltage droop compensation.
- a voltage regulator on a baseboard can provide power to a central processing unit (CPU) .
- CPU central processing unit
- static and transient voltage droop have become more significant problems.
- Voltage droop refers to a drop in the voltage in response to a CPU load.
- a transient voltage droop may occur as an initial drop in voltage when power is supplied to a CPU or when a load changes.
- a static voltage droop indicates a drop in voltage that is constant over time.
- Fig. 1 shows a power delivery system according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 2 shows a diagram of a power delivery system according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 3 is a simulated voltage performance graph.
- Fig. 4 is a simulated voltage performance graph using different decoupling capacitors.
- DETAILED DESCRIPTION Fig. 1 shows a power delivery system 10 that supplies power from a voltage regulator 12 to a CPU 14.
- the CPU 14 is composed of a die 16 and a package 18.
- the CPU 14 is anchored through an interposer 19 on a socket 20 which sits on a baseboard 22.
- Pins 24 that extend from the socket 20 attach to the baseboard 22 for electrical connection.
- Components of the voltage regulator 12, such as field effect transistors, controllers, and passive components such as filter capacitors and inductors, can be distributed on the baseboard 22 and on the socket 20.
- Fig. 2 shows how the various components of the voltage regulator 12 are connected.
- the CPU 14 is coupled to the socket 20.
- a negative feedback control loop 26 is coupled at one end to the socket 20 to sense an output voltage of the voltage regulator 12 at the interface of the socket and the CPU 14.
- the other end of the control loop 26 is coupled to power switches 28 which may include metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) .
- the output voltage is regulated by turning the switches 28 on and off under negative feedback control.
- Zl and Z2 include inductors and decoupling capacitors to provide a low-pass filter for a dc/dc converter for the voltage regulator 12.
- the decoupling capacitor Z2 is shown mounted to the interposer 19, but it can also be placed on the package 18.
- the power delivery system 10 can help reduce the problem of static and transient voltage droops when the CPU 14 needs power.
- the system 10 is able to compensate for the impedance of the socket pins 24 which would otherwise exacerbate the voltage droop. That is, the impedance of the pins 24 of the socket 20 are incorporated in the design of the power delivery system 10 with appropriate adjustment of, for example, Zl and/or Z2.
- FIG. 3 is a graph illustrating a voltage performance simulation of the power delivery system 10 that compensates for the impedance of the socket pins 24 (simulation A) and a voltage performance simulation of a conventional power delivery system that does not compensate for the impedance of the socket pins (simulation B) .
- the voltage regulator switching frequency was set at 1 megahertz (MHz)
- the current was set at 50-amp steps
- the value of the decoupling capacitor Z2 on the interposer 19 used was 24x 100 microfarads ( ⁇ F) .
- simulation A shows a transient voltage droop of approximately 46 mV at around 78 ⁇ s.
- the simulation B for the conventional system shows a transient droop of approximately 100 V at 78 ⁇ s .
- the system 10 is able to produce a significant reduction in the voltage droop whenever the CPU 14 requires power.
- Fig. 4 shows a voltage performance simulation of the power delivery system 10 with the decoupling capacitor Z2 set to a value of 900 ⁇ F (simulation C) and a voltage performance simulation of a conventional power delivery system with a corresponding decoupling capacitor set to a value of 2400 ⁇ F (simulation D) .
- the corresponding decoupling capacitor of the conventional system would be located on the baseboard and not on the socket 20 or the package 18.
- the CPU load was kept the same for both simulations.
- the graph shows that the system 10 with the smaller decoupling capacitor Z2 still has a smaller voltage droop problem than the conventional system.
- One advantage of using a smaller decoupling capacitor is that the cost of the system 10 can be controlled because the cost of multiple layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) used in power delivery systems increase in price with increasing capacitive value.
- MLCCs multiple layer ceramic capacitors
- decoupling capacitor Z2 on the socket 20 or on the package 18 is further made possible because the required decoupling value is significantly reduced as power technology is pushed to higher voltage regulator switching frequencies, for example, 5000 ⁇ F at 25 kHZ to 800 ⁇ F at 3 MHz.
- a decoupling capacitor of lower capacitive value is easier and less expensive to locate near a CPU.
- locating the decoupling capacitor closer to the CPU results in less interconnect inductance and, therefore, less voltage droop.
- the system 10 can alleviate the voltage droop problem without radically changing the interface between the CPU 14 and the baseboard 22. It overcomes the problem of voltage droop by incorporating the socket impedance as part of the voltage regulator output filter and sensing the output voltage 12 of the voltage regulator at the interface of the CPU 14 and the socket 20. This technique can be further extended to any power delivery device through a connector to enhance its performance.
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