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US 8,542,000 B1Granted
Curvature compensated band-gap design
AssigneeSanDisk Technologies LLC
InventorBehdad Youssefi
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Abstract
A bandgap reference circuit is compensated for temperature dependent curvature in its output. A voltage across a diode with a fixed current is subtracted from a voltage across a diode with a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current. The resultant voltage is then magnified and added to a PTAT voltage and a diode's voltage that has a complementary-to-absolute temperature (CTAT) characteristic, resulting in a curvature corrected bandgap voltage.
Claims5
A circuit for providing a reference voltage, comprising:
- a first diode connected between a proportional to absolute temperature current source and ground;
- a first resistance connected between the first diode and the proportional to absolute temperature current source;
- a first opamp having a first input connected to a node between the first resistance and the first diode, an output connected to the gate of a first transistor connected between a high voltage level and ground, wherein the first transistor is connected to ground though a second resistance and the second input of the first opamp is connect to a node between the first transistor and the second resistance;
- a second diode connected between ground and the high voltage level, wherein the second diode is connected to the voltage level by a first and a second leg, wherein:
- the first leg includes a second transistor whose gate is connected to receive the output of the first opamp;
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- the second leg includes a third transistor connected in series with a resistive voltage divider, where the resistive voltage divider is connected between the second diode and the third transistor;
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- a second opamp having an output connected to the gate of the third transistor, a first input connected to a node between the proportional to absolute temperature current source and the first resistance, and a second input connected to a node of the resistive voltage divider,
- wherein the reference voltage is provided from a node between the third transistor and the resistive voltage divider.
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