Kallol Chatterjee

A 0.5V supply, 49nW band-gap reference and crystal oscillator in 40nm CMOS

This paper presents the co-design of 0.5V operational band-gap reference (BGR) and 32kHz crystal oscillator (XO) in 40nm CMOS process. The proposed BJT-based BGR offers 10× resistor area reduction compared to the conventional BGR. The proposed XO provides trans-conductance enhancement without the need for large coupling capacitor and uses a feedback loop to regulate its bias current, oscillation amplitude across PVT. The total power consumption is less than 49nW from −40°C to 120°C. Without any trimming, the BGR achieves temperature coefficients of 8ppm/°C and XO has temperature coefficient of 0.25ppm/°C. The BGR offers 5× lower area, 2× lower power consumption at 120°C compared to prior work on resistor-based, non-duty cycled BGR. The XO improves power consumption by at least 2× compared to prior work at 120°C, 0.5V supply.