Patent ID: 8922187

Claim:
A buck switching regulator being configured to receiving an input voltage and to generate a regulated output voltage, the buck switching regulator controlling a high-side switch and a low-side switch based on a feedback control scheme to drive a switch output node for generating a switching output voltage, the switch output node being coupled to an LC filter to generate the regulated output voltage having a substantially constant magnitude on an output node, the buck switching regulator including a feedback control circuit comprising: a balanced feedback network including first and second gain circuits configured to generate first and second feedback signals, respectively, indicative of the regulated output voltage; a ripple generation circuit configured to generate a ripple signal using the switching output voltage and to inject a first ripple signal to the first gain circuit and a second ripple signal to the second gain circuit; an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) configured to receive the second feedback signal generated from the second gain circuit and a reference signal and to generate an output signal having a magnitude indicative of the difference between the second feedback signal and the reference signal, the output signal of the OTA being coupled to a node in the feedback control circuit; and a comparator configured to receive at least the first feedback signal and a comparator reference signal and to generate a comparator output signal having an output level indicative of the difference between the first feedback signal and the comparator reference signal, wherein the output signal of the OTA is applied to the feedback control circuit to cancel a voltage offset in the regulated output voltage due to the injected ripple signal to the first gain circuit.