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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1998
Jacopo Mulatti, Latisana, IT;
Matteo Zammattio, Milan, IT;
Andrea Ghilardelli, Cinisello B., IT;
Marcello Carrera, Trescore, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
A temperature-related voltage generating circuit has an input terminal receiving a control voltage independent of temperature, and an output terminal delivering a temperature-related control voltage. The input and output terminals are connected together through at least an amplifier stage adapted to set an output reference voltage from a comparison of input voltages. The voltage generating circuit also includes a generator element generating a varying voltage with temperature and connected between a ground voltage reference and a non-inverting input terminal of the amplifier stage. The amplifier stage has an output terminal adapted to deliver a multiple of the varying voltage with temperature to an inverting input terminal of a comparator stage. The comparator stage has its output connected to the temperature-related voltage generating circuit and a non-inverting input terminal receiving the control voltage independent of temperature to evaluate the difference between the control voltage independent of temperature and said voltage being a multiple of the varying voltage with temperature and to output a temperature-related control voltage having at room temperature a mean value which is independent of its thermal differential and increases with temperature. The voltage generating circuit can be incorporated into a regulator for a drain voltage of a single-supply memory cell.