{"title":"A 0.8V 1.52MHz MSVC Relaxation Oscillator with Inverted Mirror Feedback Reference for UHF RFID","authors":"R. Barnett, Jin Liu","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2006.320975","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 0.8V nano-power relaxation oscillator for EPC standard UHF RFID transponder is presented. A low-voltage inverted mirror feedback VGS/R reference is proposed to provide correlated current and voltage references for the oscillator. As a result, the oscillator frequency is solely determined by the resistor in the reference and the timing capacitor to meet the frequency tolerance specification. Meanwhile, to minimize the power consumption, a minimum-supply-voltage-constraint (MSVC) design criterion is proposed to minimize the required supply voltage. The inverted mirror feedback technique reduces the headroom requirement of the traditional VGS /R to meet the MSVC. Measurement results show that the entire oscillator requires a minimum supply voltage of 0.8V in the prototype chip fabricated in CMOS 0.13mum technologies. The measured oscillation frequency is 1.52MHz with 400nA total current consumption. The chip area is 13400mum2","PeriodicalId":269854,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2006","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"61","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2006","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2006.320975","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A 0.8V nano-power relaxation oscillator for EPC standard UHF RFID transponder is presented. A low-voltage inverted mirror feedback VGS/R reference is proposed to provide correlated current and voltage references for the oscillator. As a result, the oscillator frequency is solely determined by the resistor in the reference and the timing capacitor to meet the frequency tolerance specification. Meanwhile, to minimize the power consumption, a minimum-supply-voltage-constraint (MSVC) design criterion is proposed to minimize the required supply voltage. The inverted mirror feedback technique reduces the headroom requirement of the traditional VGS /R to meet the MSVC. Measurement results show that the entire oscillator requires a minimum supply voltage of 0.8V in the prototype chip fabricated in CMOS 0.13mum technologies. The measured oscillation frequency is 1.52MHz with 400nA total current consumption. The chip area is 13400mum2