A Novel Low Line Regulation Voltage Reference with No Amplifier
A novel low line regulation voltage reference (VR) without an amplifier is presented in this paper. The design is achieved by subtracting two voltages which have the same temperature curves. All circuits use only one Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) to decrease the area greatly. Designed with the SMIC 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS process, the simulation results show that the output voltage is 0.902[Formula: see text]V at TT process corner when the power supply is larger than 1.7[Formula: see text]V. The temperature coefficient (TC) is 3.6[Formula: see text]ppm/[Formula: see text]C to 7.4[Formula: see text]ppm/[Formula: see text]C at different power supplies and process corners. The simulated power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) is [Formula: see text]80[Formula: see text]dB at TT process corner when the power supply is 2.5[Formula: see text]V, and the PSRR at different process corners are almost the same. The line regulation of the proposed circuit is 0.005[Formula: see text]mV/V.