A Fully-Integrated 71 nW CMOS Temperature Sensor for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes
作者:Seokhyeon Jeong, Zhiyoong Foo, Yoonmyung Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester
摘要: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 μm CMOS and occupies 0.09 mm² while consuming 71 nW. After 2-point calibration, an inaccuracy of +1.5℃/-1.4℃ is achieved across 0℃ to 100°C. With a conversion time of 30 ms, 0.3 °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.
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