The present invention discloses a DC-to-DC step-up converter to which a logic control unit is added in order to reduce the ripples of a DC output voltage and improve the power quality. The converter of the present invention comprises a step-up circuit, a ring oscillator, a divider circuit, a PFM (pulse frequency modulation) comparator and a logic control unit. The step-up circuit is used to step up a source voltage to generate a DC output voltage. The ring oscillator is used to generate an oscillator output signal. The divider circuit receives the DC output voltage to generate a feedback voltage. The PFM comparator compares the feedback voltage with a reference voltage to generate a comparator output signal to control outputting of the oscillator output signal. The logic control unit is used to make the conductive period of a MOS transistor in the step-up circuit identical to the high-level period of an output signal of the ring oscillator to reduce the noise and the ripple of the DC output voltage of the converter.

 
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