0.5-V analog circuit techniques and their application in OTA and filter design
Chatterjee, S.
Tsividis, Y.
Kinget, P.
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA;
This paper appears in: Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
Publication Date: Dec. 2005
Volume: 40,
Issue: 12
On page(s): 2373- 2387
ISSN: 0018-9200
INSPEC Accession Number: 8675574
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.856280
Current Version Published: 2005-12-05
Abstract
We present design techniques that make possible the operation of analog circuits with very low supply voltages, down to 0.5 V. We use operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and filter design as a vehicle to introduce these techniques. Two OTAs, one with body inputs and the other with gate inputs, are designed. Biasing strategies to maintain common-mode voltages and attain maximum signal swing over process, voltage, and temperature are proposed. Prototype chips were fabricated in a 0.18-μm CMOS process using standard 0.5-V VT devices. The body-input OTA has a measured 52-dB DC gain, a 2.5-MHz gain-bandwidth, and consumes 110 μW. The gate-input OTA has a measured 62-dB DC gain (with automatic gain-enhancement), a 10-MHz gain-bandwidth, and consumes 75 μW. Design techniques for active-RC filters are also presented. Weak-inversion MOS varactors are proposed and modeled. These are used along with 0.5-V gate-input OTAs to design a fully integrated, 135-kHz fifth-order elliptic low-pass filter. The prototype chip in a 0.18-μm CMOS process with VT of 0.5-V also includes an on-chip phase-locked loop for tuning. The 1-mm2 chip has a measured dynamic range of 57 dB and draws 2.2 mA from the 0.5-V supply.
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