Title
A Current Source with Immunity from IR-drop for High-Resolution CMOS Image Sensors.
Abstract
A current source circuit for high-resolution CMOS image sensors is introduced in this paper, which can provide a stable current with immunity from IR-drop along the power and ground wires. In the circuit, two pre-charged oating capacitors controlled by two-phase non-overlap clock are connected between the gate and source of a MOS transistor alternately to maintain a constant VGS of the MOS transistor. In this way, the current owing through the MOS transistor will be stable and has nothing to do with power level. The post simulation results show that the current supplied by the proposed circuit decreases only by 1.6% when the voltage of the power supply decreases by 30%. The simulations have proved that the proposed circuit can improve the performance of high-resolution CMOS image sensors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1142/S0218126612500764
JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Current source,IR-drop,high-resolution,CMOS image sensor,parasitic resistance
Capacitor,Computer science,Widlar current source,Current source,Constant current,Mesh analysis,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Transistor,Electrical engineering,Constant power circuit
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
1
0218-1266
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaiming Nie1358.77
Suying Yao2479.18
Jiangtao Xu37418.98
Jing Gao4244.95