A 2.2 ppm/℃ compensated bandgap voltage reference with a double-ended current trimming technique

This paper presents a high-precision bandgap voltage reference (BGR) with a double-ended current trimming technique. A high-order curvature compensation method is adopted to compensate for the nonlinearity of VBE. The proposed trimming technique using the one-time programmable (OTP) programming cancels the errors caused by process variation and enables bulk production, which achieves a best TC of 2.2 ppm/degrees C from -40 degrees C to 125 degrees C. The proposed BGR is fabricated in a 0.18-um BCD process with an active area of 0.329 mm2. The line sensitivity is 0.18 %/V operating from 2.9 V to 3.6 V.