A CMOS Temperature Sensor with High-Precision Using a Charge-Balance Analog-to-Digital Converter[J]. 2018, 52(10): 124-131.
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A CMOS Temperature Sensor with High-Precision Using a Charge-Balance Analog-to-Digital Converter[J]. 2018, 52(10): 124-131.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb201810017.
A CMOS Temperature Sensor with High-Precision Using a Charge-Balance Analog-to-Digital Converter
A CMOS temperature sensor with high precision using a charge-balance analog-to-digital converter(ADC)is presented to solve the problems of low accuracy
high power consumption and narrow measuring range of conventional CMOS temperature sensor chips. The temperature sensing circuit based on parasitic bipolar junction transistors generates a voltage proportional to absolute temperature and a voltage inversely proportional to absolute temperature to avoid high-precision bandgap voltage reference
and then a charge-balanced ADC is used to alternatively quantify these two voltages and to obtain the 15 bit digital result corresponding to the real-time temperature. Sensing errors due to process variation are calibrated with an external reference volta
ge. A temperature sensing circuit is designed in a 0.18 μm CMOS process and is used for simulation. Results show that the measuring accuracy is ±0.2 ℃ in a temperature range from -40 ℃ to 125 ℃
while the duration for one measuring cycle is 42 ms
the operating current is only 130 μA
and the layout area of the core circuit is only 0.55 mm
2
. The proposed temperature sensor can be applied in the systems that require temperature sensor chips with high accuracy
low power consumption and wide measuring range
such as implantable medical devices
radio frequency identification tags and the Internet of Things.
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