CN111240391A - Low-power-supply-voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit - Google Patents
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A low power supply voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit comprises four current sources, two diode series circuits, four NMOS tubes and two resistors, wherein the positive ends of the four current sources are connected with the positive electrode of a power supply; the negative end of the first diode series circuit is grounded, and the positive end of the first diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of the first current source; the positive end of the second diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of a second current source, and the negative end of the second diode series circuit is connected with the drain end of the first NMOS tube and is connected with the negative end of the first current source through a first resistor; the negative end of the third current source is connected with the grid end of the first NMOS tube and the drain end and the grid end of the second NMOS tube; the negative end of a fourth current source is connected with the grid end of the third NMOS tube and the drain end and the grid end of the fourth NMOS tube; one end of the second resistor is connected with the negative end of the second current source, and the other end of the second resistor is connected with the drain end of the third NMOS tube and then serves as the output end of the sensor; the source ends of the four NMOS tubes are grounded. The invention can operate under lower voltage and improve the sensitivity of the sensor.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to an integrated temperature sensor circuit with low power supply voltage and high sensitivity (large slope), belonging to the technical field of semiconductor devices.
Background
The temperature sensor can detect the ambient temperature and output a corresponding voltage signal. In electronic systems, temperature sensors are widely used. For example, a temperature sensor is required to detect the ambient temperature in various electronic devices such as computers, mobile phones and tablets. In these electronic products, the temperature sensor is often integrated in a chip. The structure of a common integrated temperature sensor is shown in fig. 1, and the principle of the integrated temperature sensor is to use the negative temperature characteristic of the base-emitter voltage of a triode to realize the measurement of temperature. The linear voltage output by the temperature sensor is:
whereinV BEThe base-emitter voltage of the transistor is represented, and the transistor has negative temperature characteristics. Output voltageV THas negative temperature characteristics, namely, the output voltage value is reduced along with the increase of the temperature. However, this temperature sensor circuit has two disadvantages: firstly, the slope of the output linear voltage along with the temperature change is small, and the sensitivity of the sensor is not high; and secondly, the output linear voltage range is improved by superposing diodes, and higher power supply voltage is required.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention is directed to provide a temperature sensor circuit with low power voltage and large slope for improving the sensitivity of the sensor and reducing the power voltage of the sensor.
The problem of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
a low power supply voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit comprises four current sources, two diode series circuits, four NMOS tubes and two resistors, wherein the positive ends of the four current sources are connected with the positive electrode of a power supply; the negative end of the first diode series circuit is grounded, and the positive end of the first diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of the first current source; the positive end of the second diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of a second current source, and the negative end of the second diode series circuit is connected with the drain end of the first NMOS tube and is connected with the negative end of the first current source through a first resistor; the negative end of the third current source is connected with the grid end of the first NMOS tube and the drain end and the grid end of the second NMOS tube; the negative end of a fourth current source is connected with the grid end of the third NMOS tube and the drain end and the grid end of the fourth NMOS tube; one end of the second resistor is connected with the negative end of the second current source, and the other end of the second resistor is connected with the drain end of the third NMOS tube and then serves as the output end of the sensor; the source ends of the four NMOS tubes are grounded.
In the low-power-supply-voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit, the four current sources are PTAT (proportional to absolute temperature) current sources with the same temperature coefficient, and the currents of the first current source, the second current source and the third current source are twice the current of the fourth current source.
In the low power supply voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit, the width-length ratio and the size of the first NMOS tube and the second NMOS tube are the same; the width-length ratio and the size of the third NMOS tube are the same as those of the fourth NMOS tube.
In the low power voltage large slope temperature sensor circuit, the first diode series circuit comprises three diodes, the positive end of the first diode is connected with the negative end of the first current source, the negative end of the first diode is connected with the positive end of the second diode, the negative end of the third diode is grounded, and the positive end of the third diode is connected with the negative end of the second diode.
In the low power supply voltage high slope temperature sensor circuit, the second diode series circuit comprises a fourth diode and a fifth diode, the positive end of the fourth diode is connected with the negative end of the second current source, the positive end of the fifth diode is connected with the negative end of the fourth diode, and the negative end is connected with the drain end of the first NMOS tube and is connected with the negative end of the first current source through the first resistor.
The invention has the following beneficial effects: the invention reasonably improves the temperature sensor circuit, so that the sensor can operate under lower power supply voltage, the slope of the output signal along with the temperature change is larger, the range of the output linear voltage is wider, and the sensitivity of the sensor is effectively improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional integrated temperature sensor circuit;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an integrated temperature sensor circuit according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the output voltage temperature characteristic of the circuit of the present invention.
The list of labels in the figure is: CS, a PTAT current source, CS 1-CS 4, a first current source-a fourth current source, Q1, a triode, D1-D5, a first diode-a fifth diode, M1-M4, a first NMOS tube-a fourth NMOS tube, R1, a first resistor, R2 and a second resistor.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The invention provides a low-power-supply-voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit which solves the technical problems of small slope of a voltage-temperature characteristic curve and small output linear voltage range of the conventional temperature sensor circuit.
Referring to fig. 2, the present invention includes four PTAT current sources (i.e., the first current source CS1 to the fourth current source CS 4), five diodes (i.e., the first diode D1 to the fifth diode D5), four NMOS transistors (i.e., the first NMOS transistor M1 to the fourth NMOS transistor M4), a first resistor R1, and a second resistor R2.
The positive ends of the first current source CS 1-the fourth current source CS4 are all connected with the power supply voltage VDD, the negative end of the first current source CS1 is connected with the positive end of a first diode D1, the first diode D1, a second diode D2 and a third diode D3 are connected in series, and the negative end of the third diode D3 is grounded;
the negative end of the second current source CS2 is connected with the positive end of a fourth diode D4, a fourth diode D4 is connected with a fifth diode D5 in series, and the negative end of the fifth diode D5 is connected with one end of a first resistor R1 and the drain end of a first NMOS transistor M1;
the negative end of a third current source CS3 is connected with the drain end and the gate end of the second NMOS tube M2;
the negative end of a fourth current source CS4 is connected with the drain end and the gate end of a fourth NMOS transistor M4;
one end of the first resistor R1 is connected to the positive terminal of the first diode D1, and the other end is connected to the negative terminal of the fifth diode D5 and the drain terminal of the first NMOS transistor M1;
one end of the second resistor R2 is connected with the positive end of the fourth diode D4, and the other end is connected with the drain end of the third NMOS transistor M3;
the source ends of the first NMOS transistor M1, the second NMOS transistor M2, the third NMOS transistor M3 and the fourth NMOS transistor M4 are all grounded, the gate end of the first NMOS transistor M1 is connected with the gate end and the drain end of the second NMOS transistor M2, and the gate end of the third NMOS transistor M3 is connected with the gate end and the drain end of the fourth NMOS transistor M4;
the first to fourth current sources CS1 to CS4 are positive temperature characteristic current sources with the same temperature coefficient, and the first, second, and third PTAT current sources CS1, CS2, and CS3 all have the same current and are twice as large as the fourth PTAT current source CS 4.
The width-to-length ratio and the size setting of the first NMOS transistor M1 and the second NMOS transistor M2 are the same, and the width-to-length ratio and the size setting of the third NMOS transistor M3 and the fourth NMOS transistor M4 are the same.
The negative temperature coefficient voltage V1 at the positive end of the first diode D1 subtracts the positive temperature coefficient voltage at the two ends of the first resistor R1 to obtain a second negative temperature coefficient voltage V2, the negative temperature coefficient voltage at the two ends of the diodes D4 and D5 is added to the V2 to obtain a third negative temperature coefficient voltage V3, the positive temperature coefficient voltage at the two ends of the second resistor R2 is subtracted from the V3 to obtain a fourth negative temperature coefficient voltage, namely the output voltage VOUT, and a larger negative temperature coefficient is obtained.
The negative temperature coefficient voltage V1 at the positive terminal of the first diode D1 is formulated as follows:
whereinV BEThe base-emitter voltage of the transistor is represented, and the transistor has negative temperature characteristics.
The second negative temperature coefficient voltage V2 is formulated as follows:
whereinI PTATThe first resistor R1 is a fixed resistor set to represent a current proportional to temperature.
The third negative temperature coefficient voltage V3 is formulated as follows:
the output voltage VOUT is formulated as follows:
the first current source CS 1-third current source CS3 are arrangedI PTATAt 27oCIs 4 muA and has a positive temperature characteristic of 0.02 muAoC, of a fourth current source CS4I PTATAt 27oCIs 2 muA and has a positive temperature characteristic of 0.02 muAoC, the resistance values of the first resistor R1 and the second resistor R2 are both 200K, the sizes of the first NMOS tube M1-the fourth NMOS tube M4 are 10/5 (mu M), the power supply voltage is 4.5V, a simulation diagram shown in the figure 3 is obtained through Cadence Spetre simulation, and simulation shows that the temperature range is-40 degreesoCTo 125oCThe magnitude of the negative temperature change slope of the output voltage generated under the standard process corner (tt corner) is 17.2mVoC, outputting linear voltage range of 0.97V-3.82V. The circuit has low requirement on normal working power supply voltage, large temperature change slope, large output linear voltage range and high sensor sensitivity.
The foregoing is illustrative of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting thereof, since various other modifications and combinations will be suggested in the art and are included within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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1. A low power supply voltage large-slope temperature sensor circuit is characterized by comprising four current sources, two diode series circuits, four NMOS tubes and two resistors, wherein the positive ends of the four current sources are connected with the positive electrode of a power supply; the negative end of the first diode series circuit is grounded, and the positive end of the first diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of a first current source (CS 1); the positive end of the second diode series circuit is connected with the negative end of the second current source (CS 2), and the negative end is connected with the drain end of the first NMOS tube (M1) and is connected with the negative end of the first current source (CS 1) through a first resistor (R1); the negative end of the third current source (CS 3) is connected with the gate end of the first NMOS tube (M1) and the drain end and the gate end of the second NMOS tube (M2); the negative end of the fourth current source (CS 4) is connected with the gate end of the third NMOS tube (M3) and the drain end and the gate end of the fourth NMOS tube (M4); one end of the second resistor (R2) is connected with the negative end of the second current source (CS 2), and the other end of the second resistor (R2) is connected with the drain end of the third NMOS tube (M3) and then serves as the output end of the sensor; the source ends of the four NMOS tubes are grounded.
2. The low supply voltage high slope temperature sensor circuit of claim 1, wherein the four current sources are PTAT current sources with the same temperature coefficient, and the current of the first current source (CS 1), the second current source (CS 2) and the third current source (CS 3) is twice the current of the fourth current source (CS 4).
3. The low supply voltage large slope temperature sensor circuit according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the width-to-length ratio and the size of the first NMOS transistor (M1) and the second NMOS transistor (M2) are the same; the width-length ratio and the size of the third NMOS tube (M3) and the fourth NMOS tube (M4) are the same.
4. The low supply voltage high slope temperature sensor circuit of claim 3, wherein said first series circuit of diodes comprises three diodes, the positive terminal of the first diode (D1) is connected to the negative terminal of the first current source (CS 1), the negative terminal is connected to the positive terminal of the second diode (D2), the negative terminal of the third diode (D3) is connected to ground, and the positive terminal is connected to the negative terminal of the second diode (D2).
5. The low supply voltage large slope temperature sensor circuit according to claim 4, wherein said second diode series circuit comprises a fourth diode (D4) and a fifth diode (D5), the positive terminal of the fourth diode (D4) is connected to the negative terminal of the second current source (CS 2), the positive terminal of the fifth diode (D5) is connected to the negative terminal of the fourth diode (D4), and the negative terminal is connected to the drain terminal of the first NMOS transistor (M1) and to the negative terminal of the first current source (CS 1) through a first resistor (R1).
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