a power efficient gain enhancing technique for current mirror operational transconductance amplifiers：低功耗电流镜跨导运算放大器的增益增强技术.pdfVIP

Microelectronics Journal 46 (2015) 183–190 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Microelectronics Journal journal homepage: /locate/mejo A power efficient gain enhancing technique for current mirror operational transconductance amplifiers Shafqat Ali Dialog Semiconductor Hermann Gmeinerweg 48, Graz, Austria a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, a power efficient voltage gain enhancing technique is described. This technique is suitable Received 7 January 2014 for the amplifiers which use current starving method for gain enhancement (explained in the text). The Received in revised form proposed technique makes use of the current which conventionally goes to ground, through a parallel 7 November 2014 path. In this paper, the new technique is demonstrated for current mirror type of operational Accepted 14 November 2014 Available online 11 December 2014 transconductance amplifier (OTA). Simulation results show that gain improves by a factor 2, while consuming the same power as conventional OTA. The added advantage of this technique is that it does Keywords: not affect the voltage swing while increasing the gain. Compared to the conventional current starving Gain enhancement technique, the proposed technique also improves the noise performance and settling speed of the Power efficiency