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Default Behavior of Regulators Near and Below Drop-out

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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The internal schematics of classics like LM317 and LM1117 and such are
on the data sheets. Some people (?) could deduce their behavior from
that.


Those aren't LDO's, they're NPN "followers"; not PNP or PMOS, whose
behavior would be radically different, and quite process dependent.


LM337? In an earlier thread you noted it also uses an NPN output device.

Tim

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