Single-Stage Amplifiers with Gain Enhancement and Improved Energy-Efficiency employing Voltage-Combiners
Póvoa , R. P.
; Lourenço, N.
;
Horta, N.
; Santos Tavares, RST
; Gomes, J.
Single-Stage Amplifiers with Gain Enhancement and Improved Energy-Efficiency employing Voltage-Combiners, Proc IFIP/IEEE International Conf. on Very Large Scale Integration, Istambul, Turkey, Vol. , pp. - , October, 2013.
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Abstract
This paper presents the design of single-stage amplifiers with enhanced DC gain without the need of using any cascode devices or any positive-feedback or feed-forward techniques. Instead, two voltage-combiners are used in replacement of the traditional tail current-source that is normally employed to bias the differential-pair. Simulation results of a properly optimized circuit example, using AIDA-C a state-of-the-art multi-objective multi-constraint circuit-level optimization tool, demonstrate that DC gains above 50 dB can be achieved, together with high energy efficiency (a figure-of-merit of about 1300 MHz*pF/mA has been achieved).
