A design strategy for minimizing a feedback amplifier’s step-response settling time is introduced. Central to this approach is the clear identification of the independent design parameters characterizing the amplifier and the introduction of a figure of merit for assessing the settling performance of an amplifier that is independent of power, supply voltage and capacitive loading. With this app...

This paper presents a predictable fixed gain instrumentation amplifier using switched capacitor instead of resistor to improve the accuracy of the gain as 10. This instrumentation amplifier builds up by two operational amplifiers which connect by switched capacitor. These switched capacitors are used to stable the whole circuit, fix the gain of total instrumentation amplifier. Using two operati...

In this paper, a low voltage ultra-wideband RF receiver for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is presented. In SDR design, the radio frequency (RF) receiver should be able to receive signals over a broadbandwidth so that it can satisfy a variety of different communication standards. In the proposed design, working frequency ranging from 0.1GHz to 6GHz RF front-end for SDR, covering almost all of mat...

A low dropout voltage regulator with small output voltage variations and the ability of wide load current range support is proposed in this paper. In this LDO structure, a recycling folded cascode operational transconductance amplifier is used as an error amplifier, which has high transconductance and therefore high power efficiency. The designed LDO is simulated in 0.18 μm CMOS standard techno...

This paper discusses the design of low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain controls. Four different AGCs are presented, all consisting of three elementary building blocks: a controlled amplifier, a comparator and a voltage follower. Their design is treated separately. As an example, the final section describes an automatic gain control for hearing instruments. INTRODUCTION Low-v...

Some new active Voltage Controlled RC integrator and differentiator circuit realizations, with both single and differential input capabilities, using a few passive components and a current feedback amplifier (CFA) device, are proposed. A multiplier (ICL 8013) element has been appropriately utilized in the feed forward / feedback connection to obtain electronic tuning of the time constant (τo) b...

The DC open-loop voltage Gain is a very important specification for amplifiers. In order to increase this specification, in this paper, we have proposed an improved folded cascode gain boosted amplifier (improved FCGBA) which has extremely large DC open-loop voltage gain. Compared to traditional FCGBA, this novel structure needs only one auxiliary amplifier, so it is energy saving. Finally, wit...

A new circuit technique for voltage gain enhancement in CMOS op amp design suitable for low voltage and high speed operation is presented in this paper. A negative conductance is used to cancel the positive output conductance of an amplifier thereby reducing the total equivalent output conductance and increasing the voltage gain of the amplifier. The negative conductance is derived from the out...