Hyeon-Ji Choi;Joo-Mi Cho;Hyo-Jin Park;Seok-Jun Lee;Sung-Wan Hong
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This letter presents an off-chip output capacitor (CO)-scalable (OCS) boost converter. The proposed OCS boost converter is possible to operate both with and without the off-chip CO. In addition, it operates in a whole conversion ratio (CR) range over 1 while maintaining a small current ripple of an inductor, resulting in a high efficiency with an inductor of which inductance is small, irrespective of the $C_{O}$ capacitance. The converter was fabricated in 130-nm BCD process and shows a peak efficiency of 96.68% at $V_{IN}{=}5.5$ V, $V_{O}{=}7$ V, and I${_{\text {O}}} {=}200$ mA which has the CR of 1.27.