A 5.5nW Voltage Reference Circuit

Abstract

This paper proposed a nano-watt voltage reference circuit was implemented in a 0.18um CMOS process with trim techniques. In order to reduce power consumption, a MOS-Only Voltage Reference is presented, which is based on the threshold voltage, However, the deviation of Vref because of process variation is large. We use the difference of Vth instead of Vth to improve the stability of output voltage at different process corner. The simulation results show that under 27°C and 0.5V supply voltage, the output reference voltage is 236mV, the temperature coefficient is 30.8 ppm/°C over temperature range of 125°C (-40°C to 85°C) and only consume 5.5nW at 0.5V supply voltage.