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A 32-kHz Real-Time Clock Oscillator with On-Chip PVT Variation Compensation Circuit for Ultra-Low Power MCUs

Keishi TSUBAKI, Tetsuya HIROSE, Nobutaka KUROKI, Masahiro NUMA

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This paper proposes an ultra-low power fully on-chip CMOS relaxation oscillator (ROSC) for a real-time clock application. The proposed ROSC employs a compensation circuit of a comparator's non-idealities caused by offset voltage and delay time. The ROSC can generate a stable, and 32-kHz oscillation clock frequency without increasing power dissipation by using a low reference voltage and employing a novel compensation architecture for comparators. Measurement results in a 0.18-μm CMOS process demonstrated that the circuit can generate a stable clock frequency of 32.55 kHz with low power dissipation of 472 nW at 1.8-V power supply. Measured line regulation and temperature coefficient were 1.1%/V and 120 ppm/°C, respectively.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E98-C No.5 pp.446-453
Publication Date
2015/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E98.C.446
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Integrated Electronics

Authors

Keishi TSUBAKI
  Kobe University
Tetsuya HIROSE
  Kobe University
Nobutaka KUROKI
  Kobe University
Masahiro NUMA
  Kobe University

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