Temperature Compensation Conception of Resistor-Based Oscillator
摘要
Fully integrated RC oscillators offer significant advantages in power consumption, integration level, and immunity against external clock tampering compared to oscillators that entail external references (e.g., crystal oscillators) [1]. Furthermore, for cost/area-constrained applications, on-chip RC oscillators with compensation can achieve satisfactory frequency stability, offering the possibility of replacing bulky crystal and MEMS oscillators [2–5]. In self-powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, designing oscillators with a sub-0.5-V VDD can eliminate additional DC-DC converters to boost the VDD, thereby bolstering overall energy efficiency [6–8]. Frequency-locked loop (FLL) [8–10] featuring closed-loop operation exhibits enhanced resilience to VDD and temperature variations as the steady-state frequency is principally irrelevant to the delays of the comparator and digital logic, which are the major sources of frequency variations in open-loop relaxation oscillator [6, 7, 11, 12]. The work in [8] showcases a digital-intensive FLL capable of functioning at a sub-0.5-V VDD. Yet, due to the voltage headroom limitation imposed on the critical analog modules, the line sensitivity (11%/V) and long-term stability (400 ppm) of the FLL are compromised.