Abstract
This paper concerns the design, the implementation and the validation of a fully integrated front-end receiver for a portable ultrasonic system. This front-end receiver includes a logarithmic preamplification circuit and followed by a programmable-gain compensator. The proposed building blocks largely amplify small amplitude signals, and moderately the large amplitude ones. They also compensate signal attenuation due to its traveling of several human body tissues. The ultrasonic receiver is implemented in CMOS 0.35 μm technology. Spectre simulations of the front-end receiver show unity gain bandwidth higher than 100 MHz when driving a load of 1 pF. The expected measurements of the fabricated chip are reported. This chip operates at 3.3 V supply voltages, while maintaining wide common mode rejection ratio, high gain and low input offset voltage. The total power consumption is 15.6 mW and the total chip area is 7.2 mm2 including the digital part needed to program the TGC.
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