A CMOS low-power lock-in amplifier

A novel analog lock-in amplifier designed in a 0.18µm CMOS process with a single supply voltage of 1:8V is presented in this paper. The proposed architecture recovers the signal of interest from noisy environments with errors below 5% for noise signals of the same amplitude as the signal of interest. The lock-in amplifier is suitable for portable applications thanks to its reduced power consumption and single-supply voltage operation. Post-layout simulation results show a variable DC gain ranging from 20 to 40dB, input-referred noise of 28.1µVrms, power consumption of 350.9 µW and area of (205×58) µm².