NDLI: A 5.8 nW CMOS Wake-Up Timer for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Applications

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Author	Seokhyeon Jeong Inhee Lee Blaauw, D. Sylvester, D.
Copyright Year	1966
Abstract	This work presents an ultra-low-power oscillator designed for wake-up timers in compact wireless sensors. In a conventional relaxation oscillator, a capacitor periodically resets to a fixed voltage using a continuous comparator, thereby generating an output clock. The reset is triggered by a continuous comparator and thus the clock period is dependent on the delay of the continuous comparator which therefore needs to be fast compared to the period, making this approach power hungry. To avoid the power penalty of a fast continuous comparator, a constant charge subtraction scheme is proposed in this paper. As a constant amount of charge is subtracted for each cycle, rather than discharging/charging the capacitor to a fixed voltage, the clock period becomes independent of comparator delay. Therefore, the high power continuous comparator can be replaced with a coarse clocked comparator, facilitating low-power time tracking. For precise wake-up signal generation, an accurate continuous comparator is only enabled for one clock period at the end of the specified wakeup time. A wake-up timer using the proposed scheme is fabricated in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. The timer consumes 5.8 nW at room temperature with temperature stability of 45 ppm/°C (-10 °C to 90 °C) and line sensitivity of 1%/V (1.2 V to 2.2 V) .
Sponsorship	IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society IEEE Electron Devices Society IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society IEEE San Francisco Section Bay Area Council Univ. PA IEEE
Starting Page	1754
Ending Page	1763
Page Count	10
File Size	2481221
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189200
Volume Number	50
Issue Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Clocks Oscillators Capacitors Power demand Temperature sensors Delays Radiation detectors wireless sensor node Low power relaxation oscillator subthreshold timer
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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