Title
A 0.3 V, high-PSRR, picowatt NMOS-only voltage reference using zero-VT active loads.
Abstract
A low-voltage high-PSRR CMOS voltage reference operating with picowatt power consumption is presented. The voltage reference is generated from the threshold voltage (VT) difference of two transistors biased in weak inversion. The VT difference is achieved through its dependence with the transistor dimensions. The high-PSRR is obtained using zero-VT transistors as active loads. The final circuit was designed in a 130 nm CMOS process and occupies around 0.0007 mm2 of silicon area while consuming just 18.5 pW at 27°C. Post-layout simulations present a 62 mV reference voltage with a temperature coefficient of 15 ppm/°C, for a temperature range from -25 to 125 °C and a Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) of -68.7 dB at 0.3 V of supply voltage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.5555/3145862.3145871
SBCCI '16: 29th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design Belo Horizonte Brazil August, 2016
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Low-voltage, low-power, voltage reference, zero-V-T Transistor
Conference
978-1-5090-2736-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Cordova100.34
Arthur C. de Oliveira200.34
Pedro Toledo300.34
hamilton klimach47120.07
sergio bampi5496102.12
Eric E. Fabris61911.33