A Fully-Integrated 71 nW CMOS Temperature Sensor for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes
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- Title
- A Fully-Integrated 71 nW CMOS Temperature Sensor for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes
- Authors
- Seokhyeon Jeong; Zhiyoong Foo; Yoonmyung Lee; Sim, JY; David Blaauw; Dennis Sylvester
- Date Issued
- 2014-08
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Abstract
- We propose a fully-integrated temperature sensor for battery-operated, ultra-low power microsystems. Sensor operation is based on temperature independent/dependent current sources that are used with oscillators and counters to generate a digital temperature code. A conventional approach to generate these currents is to drop a temperature sensitive voltage across a resistor. Since a large resistance is required to achieve nWs of power consumption with typical voltage levels (100 s of mV to 1 V), we introduce a new sensing element that outputs only 75 mV to save both power and area. The sensor is implemented in 0.18 mu m CMOS and occupies 0.09 mm(2) while consuming 71 nW. After 2-point calibration, an inaccuracy of +1.5 degrees C/-1.4 degrees C is achieved across 0 degrees C to 100 degrees C. With a conversion time of 30 ms, 0.3 degrees C (rms) resolution is achieved. The sensor does not require any external references and consumes 2.2 nJ per conversion. The sensor is integrated into a wireless sensor node to demonstrate its operation at a system level.
- Keywords
- Fully integrated; subthreshold; temperature sensor; ultra-low power; wireless sensor node; INACCURACY; 3-SIGMA; -55-DEGREES-C; 125-DEGREES-C; CHIP
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/13903
- DOI
- 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2325574
- ISSN
- 0018-9200
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, vol. 49, no. 8, page. 1682 - 1693, 2014-08
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