A 0.7-V 0.43-pJ/cycle Wakeup Timer based on a Bang-bang Digital-Intensive frequency-Locked-Loop for IoT Applications

Ming Ding, Zhihao Zhou, Yao-Hong Liu, Stefano Traferro, Christian Bachmann, Kathleen Philips, Fabio Sebastiano

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    Abstract

    A 40-nm CMOS wakeup timer employing a bang-bang digital-intensive frequency-locked loop for Internet-of-Things applications is presented. A self-biased ΣΔ digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to an RC time constant via a single-bit chopped comparator and a digital loop filter. Such highly digitized architecture fully exploits the advantages of advanced CMOS processes, thus enabling operation down to 0.7 V and a small area (0.07 mm 2 ). Most circuitry operates at 32× lower frequency than the DCO in order to reduce the total power consumption down to 181 nW. High frequency accuracy and a 10× enhancement of long-term stability is achieved by the adoption of chopping to reduce the effect of comparator offset and 1/f noise and by the use of ΣΔ modulation to improve the DCO resolution. The proposed timer achieves the best energy efficiency (0.43 pJ/cycle at 417 kHz) over prior art while keeping excellent on-par long-term stability (Allan deviation floor <;20 ppm) and temperature stability (106 ppm/°C).
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)30-33
    Number of pages4
    JournalIEEE Solid State Circuits Letters
    Volume1
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2018

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    Keywords

    • Digital-intensive
    • frequency locked-loop
    • Internet of Things (IoT)
    • low-power
    • oscillator
    • wakeup timer

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