A new CMOS design of high transconductance current follower transconductance amplifier and its applications

In this work, a new CMOS implementation of high transconductance current follower transconductance amplifier (CFTA) is proposed. The proposed CFTA uses current starving technique along with an auxiliary unit (AU) to enhance transconductance performance. The cross-drain-coupled MOSFETs are also used in AU which further enhances transconductance of proposed circuit. The proposed CFTA provides higher transconductance and wider tuning range without affecting its output swing and bandwidth performance. The proposed CFTA provides transconductance of 11.3 mS, dissipates 1.8 mW power and operates at?±?0.6 V supply voltage. A current mode third order quadrature oscillator and biquad filter have been designed and simulated, to validate the performance of proposed circuit. The workability of proposed CFTA and its applications have been verified by using Cadence virtuoso schematic composer with TSMC 0.18 µm process parameters.     

A CMOS multi-gain transconductance amplifier and its applications

Transconductance amplifier (g_m) based circuits are attractive due to their inherent programmability features. Single output g_m’s are often replaced by multi-output g_m’s to reduce the number of active devices for a given application. However, this usually results in losing the circuit programmability features. This work shows that this problem can be circumvented through adopting a new programmable multi-gain g_m. The advantages of the proposed multi-gain g_m are demonstrated using two filter design examples. They show that the proposed multi-gain g_m reduces the number of active devices by two-third compared with their single output g_m based counterparts while maintaining their versatile programmability characteristics. Experimental results obtained from a 0.18 μm CMOS process for one of the applications are provided.     

Ultra low voltage, high performance operational transconductance amplifier and its application in a tunable Gm-C filter

This paper presents an ultra low voltage, high performance Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) and its application to implement a tunable Gm-C filter. The proposed OTA uses a 0.5 V single supply and consumes 60 μw. Employing special CMFF and CMFB circuits has improved CMRR to 138 dB in DC. Using bulk driven input stage results in higher linearity such that by applying a 500 mv_p-p sine wave input signal at 2 MHz frequency in unity gain closed loop configuration, third harmonic distortion for output voltage is −46 dB and becomes −42.4 dB in open loop state for 820 mv_p-p output voltage at 2 MHz. DC gain of the OTA is 47 dB and its unity gain bandwidth is 17.8 MHz with 20 pF capacitance load due to both deliberately optimized design and special frequency compensation technique. The OTA has been used to realize a wide tunable Gm-C low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is tunable from 1.4 to 6 MHz. Proposed OTA and filter have been simulated in 0.18 μm TSMC CMOS technology with Hspice. Monte Carlo and temperature dependent simulation results are included to forecast the mismatch and temperature effects after fabrication process.     

Low-distortion low-voltage operational transconductance amplifier

A new operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is proposed, which is based on the flipped voltage follower and source degeneration techniques. The OTA is simulated in a standard TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS process with a 1.8 V supply voltage. The simulation results show that the total harmonic distortion of the proposed OTA is less than 1% up to 0.85 Vp-p.     

A novel fully differential telescopic operational transconductance amplifier

w rate are also enhanced.     

一种新的套筒式全差分跨导放大器设计

A novel fully differential telescopic operational transconductance amplifier （OTA） is proposed. An additional PMOS differential pair is introduced to improve the unit-gain bandwidth of the telescopic amplifier. At the same time, the slew rate is enhanced by the auxiliary slew rate boost circuits. The proposed OTA is designed in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. Simulation results show that there is a 49% improvement in the unit-gain bandwidth compared to that of a conventional OTA; moreover, the DC gain and the slew rate are also enhanced.     

CMOS low-voltage class-AB operational transconductance amplifier

The authors present a new low-voltage class-AB operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). The proposed OTA achieves a fast non slew-rate limited settling time with low power consumption. The circuit is power efficient when driving large capacitive loads. The OTA circuit is well suited for low-voltage low-power switched capacitor applications. Experimental results of the proposed circuit are included     

一种超宽带伪差分跨导放大器

提出了一种超宽带伪差分运算跨导放大器.该放大器通过共模前馈和共模反馈方法使得运算跨导放大器单元具有更为简单的电路结构,易于设计验证并能够稳定工作在较高频率.以该放大器作为单元电路,可以实现截止频率到达百兆赫兹的高频连续时间滤波器,并作为中频滤波器用于射频接收机中.     

Tunable operational transconductance amplifier with extremely high linearity over very large input range

A simply fully-differential transconductor is presented that achieves, based on cancellation of first and higher order nonlinearities, +or-0.7% linearity error over a +or-6.4 V differential input range for +or-5 V power supplies. Common-mode input signals are cancelled at the output. The transconductance can be tuned at least by a factor 3 and f/sub (-3dB)/ is 63 MHz for 10 mu m channel length.<>     

A novel CMOS operational transconductance amplifier based on a mobility compensation technique

This brief describes a new linear operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and its application to a ninth-order Bessel filter. To improve the linearity of the OTA, we employ a mobility compensation circuit which combines the transistors operating in the triode and the subthreshold regions. The proposed technique enhances the linearity of the transconductance without loss of the input swing range. The proposed OTA shows /spl plusmn/0.5% Gm variation and the total harmonic distortion of less than - 60-dB over the input range of /spl plusmn/0.8-V. The ninth-order Bessel filter employing the proposed OTA has been implemented in a 0.35-/spl mu/m n-well CMOS process under 3.3-V supply voltage. It shows the cutoff frequency of 8 MHz and the power consumption of 65 mW.     

A single-stage operational amplifier with enhanced transconductance and slew rate for switched-capacitor circuits

The DVB-T2 standard for digital terrestrial broadcasting supports the use of quadrature amplitude modulation constellations where the constellation points are rotated in the I–Q plane. This combined with a cyclic delay of the Q component provides improved performance in some fading channels. The complexity of the optimal demapping process for rotated constellations is however significantly higher than for non-rotated constellations. This makes the DVB-T2 demapper one of the most computationally complex parts of a receiver. In this article, we examine possible simplifications of the demapping process suitable for implementation on a general purpose computer containing a modern graphics processing unit (GPU). Furthermore, we measure the performance in terms of throughput, as well as accuracy, of the implemented algorithms. The implementations are designed to interface efficiently to a previously implemented real-time capable GPU-based low-density parity-check channel decoder.     

A 7.2 GHz bipolar operational transconductance amplifier for fully integrated OTA-C filters

Using a complementary bipolar junction transistor process having NPN transistors with a maximum short circuit common emitter gain-bandwidth product (ft) of 7.2 GHz and PNP transistors with a maximumft of 4.5 GHz, an operational transconductance amplifier has been designed for a 3-dB bandwidth of 7.2 GHz. The design process invokes new phase compensation strategies and develops innovative new ways of exploiting existing broadbanding techniques. The utility of the design is confirmed by demonstrating its application in two operational transconductance amplifier-capacitance filters. One of these examples is a 225 MHz lowpass filter, while the other is a bandpass filter with a center frequency of 250 MHz.This paper is an elaboration of work presented by the authors at the36th IEEE Midwest Symposium On Circuits And Systems in Detroit, Michigan, in August 1993.     

A high precision micropower operational amplifier

An operational amplifier configuration implemented as a true micropower high precision op amp is described. It includes a well controlled and predictable DC biasing network that is insensitive to variations in temperature, supply voltages, and process. Also, it permits single supply operation. Excellent DC precision characteristics, comparable to or better than the very best precision op amps currently available, are realized yet at micropower levels. By simply increasing the biasing currents, a version of this design operates in general purpose applications without any degradation in its high precision characteristics. Thus, the AC performance levels of general purpose op amps are attained at a fraction of supply current. This device is fabricated using a standard bipolar IC process; an ion-implanted JFET is added to simplify biasing.     

A 1-V low power gain boosted self-cascoding current mirror operational transconductance amplifier

A low-voltage, micro-power, low-noise, high-gain, high-output swing current mirror-based operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is presented. The proposed OTA achieves high DC gain and output swing by the adoption of gain boosted current mirroring and self-cascoding techniques. From the simulation, the proposed OTA implemented on a 0.18 μm CMOS shows the DC gain up to 90 dB with a gain bandwidth of 700 KHz for a load capacitor of 1 pF and an output voltage swing of 600 mV. The OTA dissipates only 750 nW from 1.0 V supply.     

Modeling and designing of high-gain,wide-band and fast-speed operational transconductance amplifier

Based on the analysis of the inherent limitations of conventional OTA, this paper introduces a basic strategy by combinating linear-nonlinear adaptive current mirror and local cross-pair to solve the mutual restraint between AC and DC characteristics of the circuit. In order to simplify the multi-mode complicated circuit design, an analytical model for the new OTA is proposed, which is consistent with SPICE simulation results. Under the limitation of the static current consumption, the maximum limit of the circuit performance can be predicted by the proposed model. Under the condition of 29 μA quiescent current and 30 pF load capacitance, a chip is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS technology, and the test results show that the DC gain, GBW and slew rate achieve 73 dB, 6 MHz and 14 V/μS, respectively, and the optimal performance of DC, AC and transient can be obtained almost simultaneously.     

A high precision monolithic super-beta operational amplifier

A single-chip (67/spl times/90 mil) integrated-circuit operational amplifier using thin-film resistors and super-gain transistors has been designed to achieve dc follower accuracies of 0.001 percent with 100-k/spl Omega/ source resistance. The circuit achieves gains of 140 dB using thermally balanced layout designs for both input and output stages, nulled drifts of 0.3 /spl mu/V//spl deg/C, and offset currents well under 1 nA. All other dc specifications including power-supply variation error (PSRR), common-mode gain error (CMRR), etc., are in the 1-10 ppm error range; and a procedure is given by which long-term drifts of less than 10 /spl mu/V/month can be assured. AC performance is comparable to general-purpose integrated-circuit operational amplifiers, i.e., f/SUB t/=300 kHz and slew rate of 1.2 V//spl mu/s at gain of ten. The circuit is externally compensated for unity gain with a single 390-pF capacitor and is fully input and output protected.     

A CMOS transconductance amplifier architecture with wide tuningrange for very low frequency applications

A pseudodifferential CMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with wide tuning range and large input voltage swing has been designed for very small G_M's (of the order of a few nanoamperes per volt). The OTA is based on a modified four-quadrant multiplier architecture with current division. A common-mode feedback circuit structure has been proposed and designed using floating-gate transistors to handle large differential signals. Large on-chip capacitors are emulated through impedance scaling circuits. The circuits, fabricated in a 1.2-μm CMOS process, have been used to design a fourth-order bandpass filter and a relaxation oscillator. Experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical results