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English: Low-dropout voltage regulators use a feedback loop that keeps the mid voltage of a voltage divider equal to a reference voltage.
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Based off of https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/application-notes/an32f.pdf Application Note 32 "High Effi ciency Linear Regulators" Appendix A Figure A1a "Basic Regulating Loop".

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f 288 400 288 368 40 1.5 0.02
b 559 354 611 503 0
x 569 349 588 352 4 10 load
o 9 64 0 4098 10 0.1 0 2 3 0

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Low-dropout voltage regulators use a feedback loop that keeps the mid voltage of a voltage divider equal to a reference voltage.

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