This paper presents the design and implementation of a fully integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) as the analog frontend receiver for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUTs) for ultrasound biomicroscope imaging application. The amplifier is designed to amplify the received signals from 17.5MHz to 52.5MHz with a center frequency of 35MHz. The TIA was fabricated in GF 0.18μm ...

We describe a low-power voltage amplifier that is suitable for RF (radio frequency) receivers in a WSN (wireless sensor network). Since a sensor node has a strict energy budget in a WSN, it often enters itself into a standby mode when no communication is required, and hence a standby power have to be suppressed as well as an active power in order to maximize a lifetime of a WSN. For this sake, ...

A new dynamic comparator is presented using modified gain stage followed by latch stage for high speed analog-to-digital converter. The gain stage of proposed comparator is a modified class AB pre-amplifier which makes it suitable for high speed of operation with small delay time and low power. The circuit is simulated in 180 nm process technology using tool Cadence Virtuoso with a supply volta...

In this paper, distortion in the output envelope of AM modulated a class E RF power amplifier with a nonlinear capacitance with the grading coefficient 5 . 0 = m is analyzed. The calculation of output amplitude incorporates the influence of power loss versus dc supply voltage. Derivation of half cycle output voltage waveform is done with incorporating output amplitude as a function of dc supply...

The class-E amplifier [1]-[11] is remarked as the next candidate of digital wireless power transmitters. Non-switching power amplifiers suffer from low power-conversion efficiency due to their inherent power loss in high back off area. Hence, switching power amplifiers such as class-D and E are remarked as a remedy for improving power-conversion efficiency and prolonging battery lifetime of por...

A zero-drift amplifier, as the name suggests, is an amplifier with offset voltage drift very close to zero. It uses auto-zero or chopping technology, or a combination of both, to continuously self-correct for DC errors over time and temperature. This enables the amplifier to achieve microvolt-level offsets and extremely low offset drifts. Therefore, it is uniquely suited to be used in signal co...

In this paper, a compact low-power (LP) low-voltage (LV) metal–oxide–semiconductor-only (MOS-only) variable gain amplifier (VGA) is introduced. This amplifier based on complementary MOS (CMOS) transistors operating in strong inversion is composed of a pseudo-exponential current-to-voltage converter, analog multiplier, and output stage. The gain of the amplifier is controlled exponentially by a ...

A zero-drift amplifier, as the name suggests, is an amplifier with offset voltage drift very close to zero. It uses autozero or chopping technology, or a combination of both, to continuously self-correct for dc errors over time and temperature. This enables the amplifier to achieve microvoltlevel offsets and extremely low offset drifts. Therefore, it is uniquely suited to be used in signal cond...

13 watt Current Mode Class-D (CMCD) with 60% efficiency is presented. This amplifier is the highest power switch mode microwave power amplifier reported to date. The CMCD architecture is an improvement over the Voltage Mode Class-D in that the parasitic reactance in the active device can be absorbed into the tank circuit resulting in a zero voltage switching condition.

Using a simple and well-known voltage-to-current transformation, current-mode active RC filters that are amenable to IC realization can be derived from their voltage-based counterparts. Using this transformation, a classification of current-based single-amplifier biquads is introduced which is derived from a similar voltage-based classification. This classification is exhaustive in that it incl...