A Self-Biased Current Source Based Power-On Reset Circuit for On-Chip Applications

Author

Katyal, Amit ; Bansal, Nitin

Author_Institution

STMicroelectronics, La Jolla, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

26-28 April 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Power-on reset circuits are available as discrete devices as well as on-chip solutions and are indispensable to initialize some critical nodes of analog and digital designs during power-on. In this paper, we present a power-on reset circuit specifically designed for on-chip applications. The mentioned POR circuit should meet certain design requirements necessary to be integrated on-chip, some of them being area-efficiency, power-efficiency, supply rise-time insensitivity and ambient temperature insensitivity. The circuit is implemented within a small area (60mum times 35mum) using the 2.5V tolerant MOSFETs of a 0.28mum CMOS technology. It has a maximum quiescent current consumption of 40muA and works over infinite range of supply rise-times and ambient temperature range of -40degC to 150degC

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; constant current sources; power MOSFET; -40 to 150 C; 0.28 micron; 2.5 V; 40 muA; CMOS technology; analog designs; digital designs; discrete devices; power-on reset circuit; self-biased current source; tolerant MOSFET; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Integrated circuit technology; MOSFETs; Microprocessors; Power supplies; Robustness; Subspace constraints; Temperature dependence; Temperature distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2006 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0179-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0180-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VDAT.2006.258175

Filename

4027547