A power supply driver circuit with low power losses and desired response
characteristics with respect to changes in output and its miniaturization
is provided. In a driver IC constituting a switched-mode power supply
equipment controlling the switching, by pulse width modulation, of first
and second power transistors passing a current in a coil, and outputting
a voltage bucked or boosted from an input voltage, current sensing with
desired responsiveness is enabled by providing a switching transistor
between an inverted input terminal and a non-inverted input terminal of
an operational amplifier, preventing, while the second power transistor
is ON, the generation of a potential which is undefined when first power
transistor is ON, i.e. when the second power transistor is OFF, and
maintaining a node potential in a state in which the potential is well
defined.