Patent ID: 8018207

Claim:
A switching regulator which converts an input voltage supplied to an input terminal to a predetermined constant voltage and outputs the constant voltage through an output terminal as an output voltage, comprising: a switching unit that performs switching according to an input control signal; an inductor that is charged by the input voltage in response to the switching of the switching unit; a rectification unit that discharges the inductor when the switching unit is switched OFF and the charging of the inductor stops; a control circuit that controls the switching of the switching unit so that the output voltage becomes the constant voltage, wherein the control circuit uses a pulse signal to perform PWM control on the switching unit, said pulse signal being generated by amplifying an error voltage between the output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage at a gain variable in response to a voltage of a predetermined saw-tooth waveform signal; wherein the control circuit includes a saw-tooth waveform generation circuit that generates and outputs the saw-tooth waveform signal, and an error amplification circuit that amplifies the error voltage between the output voltage and the predetermined reference voltage to generate and output the pulse signal, and changes the gain according to the saw-tooth waveform signal output from the saw-tooth waveform generation circuit, wherein the error amplification circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit that receives the output voltage and the reference voltage through corresponding input terminals and a gain control circuit that controls the gain of the differential amplifier circuit according to the saw-tooth waveform signal output from the saw-tooth waveform generation circuit, wherein the gain control circuit, according to the saw-tooth waveform signal, changes a bias current to be supplied to each of input transistors constituting a differential pair of the differential amplifier circuit, the output voltage and the reference voltage being input in association with each other to control electrodes of the input transistors, respectively.