Abstract
An improved operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is presented in this work. The fully differential OTA adopts the current recycling technique and complementary NMOS and PMOS input branches to enhance the total transconductance. Moreover, in order to achieve higher current efficiency, a data-driven biasing circuit was developed to dynamically adjust the power consumption of the amplifier. Two comparators were added to detect the voltage difference at the input nodes, and when the differential input is large enough to activate either comparator, extra biasing current is activated and poured into the amplifier to enhance its slew rate and gain-bandwidth product (GBW). The threshold voltage of the complementary recycling folded cascode (CRFC)-based comparator is configured to suppress overshoot. Complementary common-mode feedback (CMFB) topology with local CMFB structure is built to acquire high common-mode gain. The OTA was fabricated in SMIC 0.18- μ m CMOS technology. The experimental result based on a capacitive feedback loop shows that the data-driven operation improves the average slew rate of the amplifier from 10.2 V/ μ s to 55.5 V/ μ s while the power only increases by 150%. The OTA has good potential to satisfy the fast settling demands for capacitive sensing circuits.
Highlights
Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) are widely used in capacitive sensor interface and switched capacitor circuits [1,2,3,4,5]
Current efficiency (CE) of OTA is required in application areas for large capacitive load, expeditious and accurate signal transition, and small power consumption
We demonstrate a data-driven complementary recycling folded cascode (CRFC) OTA
Summary
Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) are widely used in capacitive sensor interface and switched capacitor circuits [1,2,3,4,5]. It usually costs much biasing current since the cascode transistors are in separate current paths from the input transistors. The data-driven current branch is activated and the extra current is poured into the biasing circuit to enhance the SR and GBW of the OTA and improve its speed when the input differential signal exceeds the comparator’s threshold voltage.
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