A bulk-driven quasi-floating gate FVF current mirror for low voltage, low power applications

Abstract

This paper introduces a new low-voltage, low-power FVF current mirror circuit. The bulk-driven (BD) technique is employed to achieve extended input voltage swing and low supply voltage. Besides, the quasi-floating gate (QFG) is used to achieve high frequency performance. The merging of (BD) and (QFG) appear as a good and attractive solution to improve the circuit performance with reduced supply voltage. Benefiting from the interesting properties of (BD-QFG) MOSFET (MOST) technique, the proposed FVF current mirror circuit exhibits superior performance compared to other previously reported works. The workability of the proposed circuit has been verified through ELDO simulator based on a 0.18 μm USMC process. It achieves an enhanced bandwidth (2.7 GHz), low power consumption (79.33 μW), a low input impedance (130 Ω), and high output impedance (9.5 G Ω) from a low supply voltage (0.8 V). Monte Carlo simulation is also carried out, which proves the robust performance of the proposed circuit against mismatches. An application of the proposed current mirror is presented in the form of the current comparator to ensure the workability of the proposed BD-QFG current mirror.