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CMOS Voltage down converter using the self temperature-compensation techniques  

Son, Jong-Pil (Korea University)
Kim, Soo-Won (Korea University)
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Abstract
An on chip voltage down converter (VDC) using the self temperature-compensation techniques is proposed. At a different gate bias voltage, PMOSFET shows different source to drain current characteristic according to the temperature variation. The proposed VDC can reduce its temperature dependency by the source to drain current ratio of two PMOSFET with different gate bias respectively. Proposed circuit is fabricated in Dongbu-anam $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and experimental results show its temperature dependency of $-0.49mV/^{\circ}C$ and external supply dependency of 6mV/V. Total current consumption is only $1.1{\mu}A@2.5V$.
Keywords
VDC; Mobility; Threshold; Reference; Temperature;
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