A 1 V supply 10.3 ppm/°C 59 nW subthreshold CMOS voltage reference

Abstract

—A low temperature coefficient (TC), low power subthreshold CMOS voltage reference (CVR) over a wide temperature range is presented in this paper. The proposed circuit employs the voltage difference between the two inputs of the operational amplifier as the proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) voltage and the complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) voltage, which is obtained by the $\Delta V_{\text{GS}}$ of different-threshold transistors biased in the subthreshold region. The proposed CVR was designed in the 0.18-μm CMOS process with a total area of 0.0049 mm². It achieves an average temperature coefficient (TC) of 10.3 ppm/°C over a temperature range of −40 °C–120 °C, with a TC of 4.9 ppm/°C at the TT corner. The measured power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) is −65 dB at 10 Hz and −30 dB at 1 MHz, while the power consumption is 59 nW at a supply voltage of 1 V. The average line sensitivity (LS) is 0.16 %/V, and the LS is 0.09 %/V at the TT corner.