A Resistorless High-Precision Compensated CMOS Bandgap Voltage Reference

A resistorless high-precision compensated CMOS bandgap voltage reference (BGR), which is compatible with a standard CMOS process, is presented in this paper. A higher-order curvature correction method called base-emitter voltage linearization is adapted to directly compensate the thermal nonlinearity of base–emitter voltage. With proper mathematical operations of high-order temperature currents, most of the nonlinear temperature terms in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {BE}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> can be greatly eliminated. The proposed BGR, which is implemented in 0.35-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> CMOS technology, is capable of working down to 2 V supply voltages with 1.14055 V mean output voltage. A minimum temperature coefficient of 1.01 ppm/°C with a temperature range from −40 °C to 125 °C is realized, and a power-supply noise attenuation of 61 dB is achieved without any filter capacitors. The line regulation is better than 2 mV/V from 2 V to 5 V supply voltage while dissipating a maximum supply current of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$33~\mu \text{A}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The active area of the presented BGR is 180 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text {m}\times 220\,\,\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.

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