Date of Award
2012
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords
Applied sciences, LDO, Low power, Regulator, RFID, Subthreshold, Temperature coefficient
Supervisor
Chunhong Chen
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
An ultra low power and low voltage regulator for radio-frequency identification (RFID) passive tags is designed and optimized in this thesis. It consists of a low power sub-1V reference voltage generator with temperature and supply voltage ripple compensation, and a low-dropout voltage (LDO) regulator. The circuits are designed in CMOS 65nm technology. The total quiescent current of 63.8nA at 1.5V supply voltage has been achieved using properly sized transistors operating in the subthreshold region. With the low voltage property of transistors operating in subthreshold region the output regulated voltage can easily achieve 1V with load capacity of 50uA. Self-biased current sources are employed and optimized to eliminate the effect of supply voltage variation and to achieve a line regulation of 4.06mV/V. A PMOS pass device with small output resistance is used to reduce the load regulation to 6.57mV/50uA. By utilizing subthreshold properties, the temperature coefficient is reduced to 12.7 and 31ppm/°C for the reference voltage and regulated voltage, respectively. The circuits can operate well from -30°C to 50°C, a typical temperature range of the environment where RFID tags are widely deployed.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Chia-Chin, "An Ultra Low Power Voltage Regulator for RFID Application " (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4828.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/4828