An All-CMOS Supply, Temperature and Process Invariant Hybrid Current Reference for Power Efficient IoT Applications

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

9-16-2021

Abstract

We propose an all-CMOS, supply independent, second-order temperature compensated, process invariant, 10.09 μA current reference circuit working on a 1.8 V power supply. The current reference is built using an adaptive regulated cascode configuration integrated with a Widlar current source. It is implemented in 180 nm UMC MPW RF process and consumes an area of 0.014 mm2. It has a very low line sensitivity of 0.52 %/V and a temperature coefficient of 9.94 ppm/°C over the automotive temperature range of-40°C to 125°C. The proposed current reference is used to build a high quality, power efficient stable ring oscillator circuit working at 377.9 MHz frequency to be used in IoT SoCs. The ring oscillator shows a variation of less than 1.1 % in frequency, with supply voltage over the range 1.5 V to 2 V. The invariance of frequency with supply voltage can be exploited to reduce the power consumption up to 36.93 % in the oscillator circuit.

Identifier

85119972567 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781665419925]

Publication Title

2021 25th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test Vdat 2021

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/VDAT53777.2021.9601082

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