What is the resistance of the pulldown resistor connected to the CONTROL pin of the LDO regulator?

Figure 1 Pulldown circuit between the CONTROL and GND pins
Figure 1 Pulldown circuit between the CONTROL and GND pins

Generally, LDO regulators have a pulldown resistor between the CONTROL and GND pins so that their internal circuitry remains stable in the event of the CONTROL pin being open-circuited.

However, our LDO regulators have a MOSFET instead of a resistor as shown in Figure 1 in order to reduce control pulldown current (ICT). This MOSFET pulls down the CONTROL pin to GND with an almost constant current sink.

Figure 2 CONTROL pin voltage vs. CONTROL pin current
Figure 2 CONTROL pin voltage vs. CONTROL pin current

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