Design of Folded Cascode OTA in Different Regions of Operation Through gmID Methodology PDF
Design of Folded Cascode OTA in Different Regions of Operation Through gmID Methodology PDF
International Journal of Electrical, Computer, Energetic, Electronic and Communication Engineering Vol:2, No:9, 2008
International Science Index, Electrical and Computer Engineering Vol:2, No:9, 2008 waset.org/Publication/7027
I. INTRODUCTION
Vin
M9
M1
M2
M3
M4
Vo +
M 10
Vin
V1
M 12
Ibias
Vo
M5
M6
V2
Ibias
M8
M7
M 11
Vss
Fig. 1 Folded cascode OTA topology
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requirements design [25]. We opt for a folded cascode opamp due to its large gain and high bandwidth performances.
Fig. 1 presents the folded cascode OTA (the name folded
cascode comes from folding down p-channel cascode active
loads of a diff-pair and changing the Mosfets to n-channels).
To understand the operation of the folded cascode OTA,
this last has a differential stage consisting of NMOS
transistors M9 and M10. Mosfets M11 and M12 provide the DC
bias voltages to M1-M2-M7-M8 transistors. The open-loop
voltage gain and gain bandwidth are given by (1) and (2)
below:
g m 9 .g m 6 .g m 4
(1)
AV = 2
2
2
ID (g m 4 N + g m 6 P )
AV
gm9
GBW
(2)
g
I
GBW = m9 D
ID C L
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gm9/ID
ID
I= ID/(W/L)9
(W/L)9
m6
ID
g m 9 .g m 6
( N 2 + P 2
(4)
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TABLE I
SPECIFICATIONS
Specifications
Values
Av (dB)
105
GBW (MHz)
21.5
10
CL (fF)
Vdd/Vss (V)
1
Channel length (m)
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TABLE V
SPECIFICATIONS
Caractristiques
Valeurs
Av (dB)
80
GBW (MHz)
450
0.1
CL (pF)
Vdd/Vss (V)
2
Channel length (m)
1
Parameters
ID (A)
W 9,10 (m)
W 3,4 (m)
W 5,6,7,8 (m)
W1,2,12 (m)
W11 (m)
V1 = V2 (mV)
Values
27.5
14
5.4
2
10.8
4
-318
V. COMPARISON OF RESULTS
After discussing the different parameters of OTA design we
can evaluate our study toward other works. The performance
of the folded cascode OTA from this work has been compared
to two recent OTA circuits design. The first is a Class-AB
OTA [29]. The second was a telescopic OTA architecture
presented in [30]. This comparison is given in Table VIII. It is
Fig. 8 OTAs transconductance in strong inversion region
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Specifications
DC Gain (dB)
GBW (MHz)
Transconductance (S)
Phase margin (degrees)
Offset voltage (V)
Output swing (V)
Input swing (V)
Slew Rate (V/s)
CMRR (dB)
PSRR p, n (dB)
Supply voltage (V)
Bias current (A)
Power consumption (W)
Performance/Design
OTA Architecture
Technology (m)
the goal to reach high gain and large bandwidth has been
fulfilled.
We estimate that gm/ID methodology is well adopted for
sizing in different function modes to reach extremely
performances offered by a given technology.
Future work would involve the exploitation of these results
on folded cascode OTA for low consumption and wide band
applications to use it in wide band analog-to-digital
converters.
TABLE VII
FOLDED CASCODE OTA SPECIFICATIONS
Weak inversion
Moderate inversion
75.57
92
19.14
69
1.8
65
67
74.5
430.4
246
[-0.96 ; 0.95]
[-1.94 ; 1.84]
[-0.99 ; 0.98]
[-1.95 ; 1.87]
3.3
16.5
126.8
133
18
45.7
1
2
0.1
4
0.6
48
TABLE VIII
PERFORMANCES COMPARISON
Yao & Steyaert [29]
Craig Brendan Keogh [30]
Class-AB
Telescopic
0.09
0.18
Strong inversion
77.53
430
396
58
337
[-1.84 ; 1.72]
[-1.95 ; 1.87]
196
114
46.5
2
55
660
This work
Folded cascode
0.35
DC Gain (dB)
50
79
75.57
GBW (MHz)
57
8.5
19.14
57
78
67
0.925
80
4.6
0.6
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