A 3.0 μ Vrms, 2.4 ppm/°C BGR With Feedback Coefficient Enhancement and Bowl-Shaped Curvature Compensation

This paper demonstrates a low-noise, offset and temperature coefficient (TC) bandgap reference for the portable biopotential signal monitoring system. The proposed feedback coefficient enhancement technique suppresses the low-frequency noise and offset voltage. Besides, the bowl-shaped curvature compensation is applied in the BGR to obtain a decent TC. The proposed bandgap reference was designed and fabricated by the
$0.18 ~\mu \text{m}$
deep N-well CMOS technology with an active area of 0.088 mm2. Experimental results show that this BGR outputs 0.6 V reference voltage under 1.2 V supply voltage while consuming
$60 ~\mu \text{W}$
power. The measured integrated noise from 0.1 to 10 Hz is about
$3.0 ~\mu \text{V}$
(rms). In addition, the average TC of the BGR is 2.4 ppm /°C from −45 °C to 125 °C after trimming.