A 120nW 18.5kHz RC oscillator with comparator offset cancellation for ±0.25% temperature stability
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Paidimarri, Arun
Griffith, Danielle
Wang, Alice
Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
Burra, Gangadhar
Date Issued
February 2013
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Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Paidimarri, A., D. Griffith, A. Wang, A. P. Chandrakasan, and G. Burra. “A 120nW 18.5kHz RC Oscillator with Comparator Offset Cancellation for ±0.25% Temperature Stability.” 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (February 2013).
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Integrated low-frequency oscillators can replace crystal oscillators as sleep-mode timers to reduce the size and cost of wireless sensors [1]. Since the timer is one of the few continuously functioning circuits, minimizing its power consumption can greatly reduce sleep-mode power of highly duty-cycled systems. Temperature stability of the oscillator is important in order to minimize timing uncertainly and guard time for the radios, and thus maximizing sleep time. The voltage-averaging feedback method described in [2] achieves high stability in the MHz frequencies, but when scaled to the kHz range, requires very large filters. On the other extreme, gate leakage-based timers have been designed for sub-nW power consumption, but operate in the sub-Hz frequencies [3]. In the past, high accuracy RC oscillators in the kHz range have been designed with feed-forward correction [1] and self-chopped operation [4]. In this work, an offset cancellation architecture achieves long-term frequency stability and temperature stability while operating at lower power.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487692
