The invention intends to provide a technique that achieves a sufficient
phase margin with ease. The circuit includes a power supply circuit that
is formed with a phase compensating resistor and a phase compensating
capacitor, between a second input terminal of a differential amplifier
and a low supply voltage. Thereby, the first pole frequency in the
overall gain is determined by the first pole frequency in the
voltage-dividing resistor stage in the Bode diagram for the pole/zero
compensation, which is shifted to a lower frequency. Also, the zero point
cancels the first pole frequency in the differential amplifier stage,
which reduces the phase delay to secure the phase margin. And, since the
phase compensating resistor can take a considerably high resistance, the
same characteristic can be achieved with a low capacitance of the phase
compensating capacitor; thereby, the phase compensation becomes possible
with a resistor and a capacitor having a smaller size than the pole/zero
compensation with the internal supply voltage.