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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
May. 08, 2020
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Mohammad Al-Shyoukh, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Alexander Kalnitsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A tracking voltage generator, the latter including: a first transistor having a first leakage current and which is coupled with the flipped gate transistor so that a difference between a gate-source voltage (Vgs) of a flipped gate transistor and the first transistor is approximately equal to a bandgap voltage of a semiconductor material from which the tracking voltage generator is formed; an output node providing a tracking voltage which has a positive or negative temperature dependency based on the flipped gate transistor and the first transistor; and a second transistor connected to the output node and which has a second leakage current. A current reference includes: the tracking voltage generator; an amplifier to receive the tracking voltage and output an amplified signal; a control transistor to receive the amplified signal and conduct a reference current therethrough; and a control resistor connected in series with the control transistor.