A Resistorless Low-Power Voltage Reference with Novel Curvature-Compensation Technique

In this paper, a MOSFET-only voltage reference with novel curvature-compensation is proposed. In order to reduce the temperature coefficient in the proposed voltage reference, two proportional to absolute temperature voltages with opposite second-order order TC are added on a threshold voltage, which is achieved by a resistorless threshold voltage extractor. Besides, self-biased current source with feedback is realized at the same time, which can provide bias current for the whole voltage reference and enhance the performance of generated voltage reference without additional power consumption. Verification results of the proposed voltage reference implemented with 0.35µm technology process show that the temperature coefficient is 2.4 ppm/□ with a temperature range of −20□ to 80□ is obtained, and a 62.9 dB power supply rejection ratio is achieved with a 68nA maximum supply current.

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