Design and implementation of sub 0.5‐V OTAs in 0.18‐μm CMOS

T Kulej, F Khateb - International Journal of Circuit Theory and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A family of bulk‐driven CMOS operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) has been
designed for extremely low supply voltages (0.3‐0.5 V). Three OTA design schemes with …

A standard-cell-based CMFB for fully synthesizable OTAs

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose a fully standard-cell-based common-mode feedback (CMFB) loop
with an explicit voltage reference to improve the CMRR of pseudo-differential standard-cell …

A tree-based architecture for high-performance ultra-low-voltage amplifiers

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, P Monsurrò, G Scotti… - Journal of Low Power …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we introduce a novel tree-based architecture which allows the implementation
of Ultra-Low-Voltage (ULV) amplifiers. The architecture exploits a body-driven input stage to …

An enhanced input differential pair for low-voltage bulk-driven amplifiers

M Akbari, SM Hussein, Y Hashim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a low-voltage high-transconductance input differential pair for bulk-
driven amplifiers. The proposed structure employs two bulk-driven flipped voltage follower …

A differential-to-single-ended converter based on enhanced body-driven current mirrors targeting ultra-low-voltage OTAs

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti, P Tommasino… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) technique to improve body-driven current mirrors is
proposed. The proposed technique is employed to improve the performance of conventional …

A low-noise high-gain recycling folded cascode operational transconductance amplifier based on gate driven and quasi-floating bulk technique

R Saini, K Sharma, R Sharma - Journal of Circuits, Systems and …, 2022 - World Scientific
Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) is an important circuit block used in the
design of filter, amplifiers and oscillators for various analog-mixed circuit systems. However …

Nanopower multiple-input DTMOS OTA and its applications to high-order filters for biomedical systems

M Kumngern, T Kulej, F Khateb, V Stopjakova… - … -International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new solution for a low-voltage multiple-input dynamic threshold operational
transconductance amplifier (MIDT OTA) for low-frequency signal processing applications is …

A 0.25-V calibration-less inverter-based OTA for low-frequency Gm-C applications

RAS Braga, LHC Ferreira, GD Coletta, OO Dutra - Microelectronics Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a calibration-less inverter-based operational transconductance
amplifier (OTA) built with intrinsically matched CMOS inverters, therefore, dispensing any …

0.4-V tail-less quasi-two-stage OTA using a novel self-biasing transconductance cell

M Akbari, SM Hussein, Y Hashim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a tail-less fully differential bulk-driven transconductance amplifier without
using a common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuit. The proposed amplifier employs two P-type …

A low-voltage gain boosting-based current mirror with high input/output dynamic range

M Doreyatim, M Akbari, M Nazari, S Mahani - Microelectronics Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a bulk-driven current mirror circuit based on the gain-boosting
technique to achieve high input/output dynamic range and high output resistance. The bulk …