Title
Improved class-AB output stage for Sub-1 V fully-differential operational amplifiers
Abstract
An existent architecture for low voltage class-AB output stages is analyzed finding critical issues for which effective original solutions are proposed. The approach has been applied to the design of a compact class-AB fully-differential operational amplifier, capable of operating at a supply voltage of 0.8 V, providing a maximum output current of 7.5 mA with only 156 uA of quiescent supply current. The proposed amplifier constitutes a convenient building block for switched-capacitor circuits and low-voltage sensor interfaces. The performances of the amplifier are demonstrated by means of electrical simulations performed on a prototype designed with the UMC 0.18 um CMOS process. The total estimated area of the cell is 0.023 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/PRIME.2018.8430361
2018 14th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Class-AB,Fully-differential,CMOS,Operational amplifier,sub-1V
Computer science,Voltage,Cmos process,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Low voltage,Electronic circuit,Operational amplifier,Supply current,Amplifier
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-5388-3
1
0.39
References 
Authors
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Ria120.82
Simone Del Cesta210.39
A. Catania310.39
Massimo Piotto443.89
Paolo Bruschi56217.83