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An Accurate Current Reference using Temperature and Process Compensation Current Mirror  

Yang, Byung-Do (College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD / v.46, no.8, 2009 , pp. 79-85 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, an accurate current reference using temperature and process compensation current mirror (TPC-CM) is proposed. The temperature independent reference current is generated by summing a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current. However, the temperature coefficient and magnitude of the reference current are influenced by the process variation. To calibrate the process variation, the proposed TPC-CM uses two binary weighted current mirrors which control the temperature coefficient and magnitude of the reference current. After the PTAT and CTAT current is measured, the switch codes of the TPC-CM is fixed in order that the magnitude of reference current is independent to temperature. And, the codes are stored in the non-volatile memory. In the simulation, the effect of the process variation is reduced to 0.52% from 19.7% after the calibration using a TPC-CM in chip-by-chip. A current reference chip is fabricated with a 3.3V 0.35um CMOS process. The measured calibrated reference current has 0.42% variation for $20^{\circ}$C${\sim}$100$^{\circ}$C.
Keywords
CMOS; Current reference; Current mirror; Temperature compensation; Process compensation;
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