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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Ajay Kumar, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Rahul Bhandarkar, Austin, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A simple bandgap current generator combines a PTAT (proportional to absolute temperature) base-emitter voltage (VBE) measured across two binary junction devices (ΔVBE=VBE−VBE) with a current that is varied by an nWell resistor with a positive temperature coefficient to produce a CTAT (complementary to absolute temperature) current instead of PTAT reference current. One of the base-emitter voltages is constrained to be VBE=VBE(βT). This reduces the temperature dependency of a reference current generated by the bandgap generator. This reference current may be used to generate a bandgap reference voltage by adding an IR drop to a diode voltage or to a base-emitter voltage. The simple bandgap circuit is significantly smaller in size than a precision bandgap circuit, but still provides a voltage and/or a current reference signal having a good accuracy.