A low-voltage all-metal oxide semiconductor(MOS)voltage reference with ultra-low power is presented to solve the problems of high supply voltage
high power consumption and large chip area in conventional band-gap references. The reference enforces all transistors to operate in the deep sub-threshold region through a voltage clamping technique
and the reference voltage is obtained by compensating the temperature characteristic of the thermal voltage with the difference of threshold voltages between two MOS transistors in sub-threshold region. Meanwhile
the linearity of the voltage reference and power supply rejection ratio are enhanced via negative feedback in the circuit
which is designed using the S
MIC 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor process. Simulation results show that the reference circuit is able to operate within 0.5-3.3 V voltage range of power supply with a linear regulation of 0.428%V
-1
and the lowest power consumption is merely 0.41 nW. When the power supply voltage is 1.8 V in a temperature range from -40 to 125 ℃
the temperature coefficient is 4.53×10
-6
℃
-1
the output voltage of the reference is 230 mV
and the power supply rejection ratio is -60 dB at 1 kHz frequency
while the layout area of the core circuit is only 625 μm
2
. The voltage reference can be used in the systems that require low voltage and low power consumption
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