A Novel Temperature Stable Current Mode Bandgap for Wide Range of Supply Voltage Variation

Author(s):  
Sovan Ghosh
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ana Isabela Araújo Cunha ◽  
Antonio José Sobrinho De Sousa ◽  
Edson Pinto Santana ◽  
Robson Nunes De Lima ◽  
Fabian Souza De Andrade ◽  
...  

This work presents a CMOS four quadrant analog multiplier architecture for application as the synapse element in analog cellular neural networks. For this reason, the circuit has voltage-mode inputs and a current-mode output and the chief design targets are compactness and low energy consumption. A signal application method is proposed that avoids voltage reference generators, which contributes to reduce sensitivity to supply voltage variation. Performance analysis through simulation has been accomplished for a design in CMOS 130 nm technology with 163 µm2 total active area. The circuit features ±50 mV input voltage range, 86 µW static power and ‑28.4 dB maximum total harmonic distortion. A simple technique for manual calibration is also presented.


Author(s):  
Maryna Asayonak ◽  
Andrey Zenevich ◽  
Yauhen Novikau

Currently, in many applications, photodetectors are needed that provide registration of optical radiation in a wide range of intensities and allow combining two operating modes: current mode and photon counting. These devices include silicon photoelectronic multipliers (SiPM), which have a number of advantages compared to electrovacuum photomultipliers and avalanche photodetectors. However, the influence on the photoresponse characteristics of SiPM of such important factors as the supply voltage and temperature has not been studied enough. The influence of these factors on the amplitude parameters of the photoresponse of SiPM is studied. The block diagram of the experimental setup is presented, with the help of which the photoresponse characteristics of SiPM with n+-n-p+ and p+-p-n+ structures manufactured by Integral OJSC (Republic of Belarus) were measured. The dependences of the average amplitude of the photoresponse on the supply voltage and temperature of silicon photomultipliers for various wave-lengths of optical radiation are presented. It was found that when SiPM were exposed to optical pulses with the same duration and energy exposure at the same temperature at the same overvoltage, the photoresponse amplitude was larger for a SiPMr with p+-p-n+ structure regardless of the wave-length of optical radiation. It was found that, when the overvoltage changes, the increase in the photoresponse amplitude is observed only in the overvoltage range ΔU = 0 ¸ 3 V for all the studied SiPM, irrespective of the wave-length of the detected optical radiation and temperature. It was determined that a decrease in temperature led to an increase in the amplitude of the photoresponse pulses. The temperature dependence of the amplitude of the photoresponse was most pronounced for SiPM with the p+-p-n+ structure. It was shown that the dependences of the average amplitude of the photomonitor Si-PM on the energy exposure have a linear section, the length of which depends on the wavelength of the detected optical radiation.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
Zhongjian Bian ◽  
Xiaofeng Hong ◽  
Yanan Guo ◽  
Lirida Naviner ◽  
Wei Ge ◽  
...  

Spintronic based embedded magnetic random access memory (eMRAM) is becoming a foundry validated solution for the next-generation nonvolatile memory applications. The hybrid complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)/magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) integration has been selected as a proper candidate for energy harvesting, area-constraint and energy-efficiency Internet of Things (IoT) systems-on-chips. Multi-VDD (low supply voltage) techniques were adopted to minimize energy dissipation in MRAM, at the cost of reduced writing/sensing speed and margin. Meanwhile, yield can be severely affected due to variations in process parameters. In this work, we conduct a thorough analysis of MRAM sensing margin and yield. We propose a current-mode sensing amplifier (CSA) named 1D high-sensing 1D margin, high 1D speed and 1D stability (HMSS-SA) with reconfigured reference path and pre-charge transistor. Process-voltage-temperature (PVT) aware analysis is performed based on an MTJ compact model and an industrial 28 nm CMOS technology, explicitly considering low-voltage (0.7 V), low tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) (50%) and high temperature (85 °C) scenario as the worst sensing case. A case study takes a brief look at sensing circuits, which is applied to in-memory bit-wise computing. Simulation results indicate that the proposed high-sensing margin, high speed and stability sensing-sensing amplifier (HMSS-SA) achieves remarkable performance up to 2.5 GHz sensing frequency. At 0.65 V supply voltage, it can achieve 1 GHz operation frequency with only 0.3% failure rate.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1450142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed M. Al-Hindawi ◽  
Abdullah Abusorrah ◽  
Yusuf Al-Turki ◽  
Damian Giaouris ◽  
Kuntal Mandal ◽  
...  

Photovoltaic (PV) systems with a battery back-up form an integral part of distributed generation systems and therefore have recently attracted a lot of interest. In this paper, we consider a system of charging a battery from a PV panel through a current mode controlled boost dc-dc converter. We analyze its complete nonlinear/nonsmooth dynamics, using a piecewise model of the converter and realistic nonlinear v–i characteristics of the PV panel. Through this study, it is revealed that system design without taking into account the nonsmooth dynamics of the converter combined with the nonlinear v–i characteristics of the PV panel can lead to unpredictable responses of the overall system with high current ripple and other undesirable phenomena. This analysis can lead to better designed converters that can operate under a wide variation of the solar irradiation and the battery's state of charge. We show that the v–i characteristics of the PV panel combined with the battery's output voltage variation can increase or decrease the converter's robustness, both under peak current mode control and average current mode control. We justify the observation in terms of the change in the discrete-time map caused by the nonlinear v–i characteristics of the PV panel. The theoretical results are validated experimentally.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
Dan-Dan Zheng ◽  
Yu-Bin Li ◽  
Chang-Qi Wang ◽  
Kai Huang ◽  
Xiao-Peng Yu

Abstract In this paper, an area and power efficient current mode frequency synthesizer for system-on-chip (SoC) is proposed. A current-mode transformer loop filter suitable for low supply voltage is implemented to remove the need of a large capacitor in the loop filter, and a current controlled oscillator with additional voltage based frequency tuning mechanism is designed with an active inductor. The proposed design is further integrated with a fully programmable frequency divider to maintain a good balance among output frequency operating range, power consumption as well as silicon area. A test chip is implemented in a standard 0.13 µm CMOS technology, measurement result demonstrates that the proposed design has a working range from 916 MHz to 1.1 l GHz and occupies a silicon area of 0.25 mm2 while consuming 8.4 mW from a 1.2 V supply.


Author(s):  
Waleed Khalid Shakir Al-Jubori ◽  
Yasir Abdulhafedh Ahmed

Study and analysis the effect of variable applied voltage on SCIM performances based on FEA is presented. Three phase squirrel cage induction motor SCIM has been investigated and numerically simulated using finite element method (FEM) with the aid of ANSYS software (RMxprt and Maxwell 2D/3D). This research presents study and analysis of the effects of the voltage variation on performance and efficiency of the three-phase induction motor of the squirrel cage type. The Finite Elements Analysis Method FEA is used as one of the best methods for analysis and simulation of electrical motors in addition to the possibility of dealing with nonlinear equations, Since the induction motor is a complex electromagnetic reaction, the researchers used the ANSYS program to represent and analyze the performance of the motor under variable supply voltage. The case studied in this research is three phases, 380V, 50Hz, 2.2kW, induction motor that widely use in industrial application. The aim of this research is to study the effect of voltage variation on efficiency, current value, power factor and torque of SCIM.  The RMxprt software has been used for modeling and simulating the induction motor and calculating the values of phases currents, input and output power in additional of overall efficiency at steady state condition. The next stage of the research is creating Maxwell 2-D design from the base model of RMxprt software, Maxwell 2-D model has the ability to computing the distribution of magnetic field and explaining the performance under steady-state operation. The obtained results show significant reduction of motor performance due to the effect of variation of apply voltage.


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