Title
High-Gain, High-Cmrr Class Ab Operational Transconductance Amplifier Based On The Flipped Voltage Follower
Abstract
A novel class AB operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) topology is proposed, based on a class AB flipped voltage follower. The OTA has class AB behavior, with current boosting both for the load and the compensation capacitors. It has a high gain of (g(m)r(0))(4), obtained using a two-stage structure with cascoded stages, and is a two-stage Miller-compensated amplifier employing multipath to remove the positive zero. It has close to rail-to-rail output swing (limited by cascoding) and very low common-mode gain thanks to a replica technique (allowing the use of low-power common-mode feedback [CMFB] loops). Ninety-two decibels of gain and 176 dB of common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) without CMFB are achieved using a 40-nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The OTA is used to design a low-power sample-and-hold amplifier (SHA) operating at 5 MSps, a typical application for CMOS OTAs, which has been chosen to verify the proposed circuit's performance and to show that the OTA is robust in Monte Carlo simulations under process variations and mismatches in an actual application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1002/cta.2599
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUIT THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
analog circuits, class AB, low power, low voltage, operational transconductance amplifier, sample-and-hold
High-gain antenna,Analogue electronics,Operational transconductance amplifier,Buffer amplifier,Electronic engineering,Low voltage,Sample and hold,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
4
0098-9886
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Centurelli15615.93
Pietro Monsurrò24812.78
A. Trifiletti343363.29