This paper describes a new Bandgap Reference (BGR) architecture with low power consumption and high Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR). Implemented in a 65nm CMOS technology, the circuit includes a pre-regulator, a current source and also digital validation for the bandgap voltage. The current consumption is below 4.9μA at 50oC, PSRR of -110dB@1kHz and -61.3dB@10MHz. The reference output volta...

A curvature compensation technique for bandgap voltage references that utilizes an adaptive reference temperature is presented. This compensation technique is intended for high-resolution temperature-stable analogdigital converters. A test circuit had been designed in a 0.6 pn CMOS technology to implement this technique. The reference voltage has a simulated temperature coefficient of 2.3 ~ p m...

A low power voltage reference generator operating with a supply voltage ranging from 1.6 to 3.6 V has been implemented in a 90-nm standard CMOS technology. The reference is based on MOSFETs that are biased in the weak inversion region to consume nanowatts of power and uses no resistors. The maximum supply current at 3.6 V and at 125 C is 173 nA. It provides a 771 mV voltage reference. A tempera...

A novel current reference with low temperature and supply sensitivity and without any external component has been developed in a 0.25 m mixed-mode process. The circuit is based on a bandgap reference (BGR) voltage and a CMOS circuit similar to a beta multiplier. An NMOS transistor in triode region has been used in place of a resistor in conventional beta multiplier to achieve a current which ha...

This application note outlines the implementation of a single-supply, triangular wave oscillator using the MAX9000 and some passive components. The application circuit uses an op amp, comparator, and a voltage reference as active building blocks. The MAX9000 is chosen because it integrates these three components. Introduction The linearity of triangular waveforms makes triangular wave generator...

this paper presents a new arc starter circuit that is usable in manual metal arc welding (mma) power supplies. the proposed circuit uses an auxiliary circuit and a series coupling transformer for adding high frequency spikes to output dc voltage during arc striking. the proposed circuit is usable in inverter based arc welding supplies and it could result in a decrease of weigh, volume and expen...

A high-speed and high-accuracy continuous-time common-mode feedback block (CMFB) is presented. To satisfy speed and accuracy requirements, some modi ̄cations have been applied on di®erential di®erence ampli ̄er (DDA) CMFB circuit. The proposed method is applied to a folded cascode op-amp with power supply of 3.3V. In order to verify the proposed circuit, simulations are done in 0.35 m standard CM...

Abstract. The design of a Dynamic Voltage Restorer that is suitable for compensating regional voltage sags in 10kV distribution system is introduced in this paper. The design of the main circuit based on cascaded H-bridge, the device for energize DVR and the transformer-less coupled circuit are presented. For the voltage sags in neutral point non-grounded system, a reference voltage calculation...

Physically-aware N-detect (PAN-detect) test improves defect coverage by exploiting defect locality. This paper presents physically-aware test selection (PATS) to efficiently generate PAN-detect tests for large industrial designs. Compared to traditional N-detect test, the quality resulting from PAN-detect is enhanced without any increase in test execution cost. Experiment results from an IBM in...