A 0.8-V 110-nA CMOS current reference circuit using subthreshold operation

A 1-μW 600-ppm/◦C Current Reference Circuit Consisting of Subthreshold CMOS Circuits

A low-power CMOS current reference circuit was developed using a 0.35-μm standard CMOS process technology. The circuit consists of MOSFET circuits operating in the subthreshold region and uses no resistors. It compensates for the temperature effect on mobility μ and threshold voltage VTH of MOSFETs and generates a reference current that is insensitive to temperature and supply voltage. Theoreti...

High-Resistance Resistor Consisting of a Subthreshold CMOS Differential Pair

We propose a CMOS circuit that can be used as an equivalent to resistors. This circuit uses a simple differential pair with diodeconnected MOSFETs and operates as a high-resistance resistor when driven in the subthreshold region of MOSFETs. Its resistance can be controlled in a range of 1–1000 MΩ by adjusting a tail current for the differential pair. The results of device fabrication with a 0.3...

A 95-nA, 523ppm/°C, 0.6-μW CMOS current reference circuit with subthreshold MOS resistor ladder

A 1 V, 380nW, Current Generator Circuit using Sub-Threshold Region of Operation of MOSFETs

In Analog circuit design field, current reference circuit is mostly used for constant current supply to the circuits, so that their function runs properly. This work gives a circuit that operates with minimum operating voltage and current, CMOS current generator circuit and presents its performance with circuit simulation in 180nm UMC CMOS technology. The designed circuit has four sub parts sta...

Temperature-compensated CMOS current reference circuit for ultralow-power subthreshold LSIs

This paper proposes a low-current reference circuit for power-aware LSI applications. The circuit consists of two current generation subcircuits which are based on β-multiplier circuit, one with a positive and the other with a negative temperature coefficient. The variation of the reference current in a sample circuit designed to produce a current of 230 nA can be kept very small within ±1.3% i...