Current Feedback Amplifiers (CFA) are discussed in this report. Current Feedback Amplifiers employ the current mode of signal processing to achieve higher gain-bandwidth product and greater slew rates than those of a Voltage Feedback Amplifier (VFA). The Current Feedback Amplifier topology has an inherent advantage over that of the the Voltage Feedback Amplifier, wherein the amplifier gain can ...

This paper describes a CMOS analogy voltage supper buffer designed to have extremely low static current Consumption as well as high current drive capability. A new technique is used to reduce the leakage power of class-AB CMOS buffer circuits without affecting dynamic power dissipation. The name of applied technique is TRANSISTOR GATING TECHNIQUE, which gives the high speed buffer with the redu...

In this paper, the novel “tapered-Vth” approach to design energy-efficient CMOS buffers is introduced. In this approach, the substantial energy consumption due to leakage is reduced by tapering the threshold voltage throughout the buffer stages, other than tapering the transistor size. More specifically, the threshold voltage is progressively reduced when going from the last to the first stage....

This paper presents a temperature measurement system without the input buffer. A voltage follower or a buffer is required to minimize the influence of the ADC input impedance in the thermistor temperature measurement system. In such system, a high performance operational amplifier is usually required to prevent the noise and distortion due to the additional circuit. Negative power is also neces...

A fully-active low-noise amplifier (LNA) for ultrawideband application is presented. Passive on-chip inductor of conventional LNA design is replaced by low-noise active inductor, significantly reducing the total chip area of the proposed CMOS LNA. The core LNA circuit is a cascoded common-source amplifier loaded with an active inductor. Two buffer stages are used to provide the required input a...

This paper presents a high CMRR and wideband current feedback Instrumentation Amplifier (IA). The proposed IA architecture consists of Fully Balanced Differential Difference Amplifier (FBDDA) and Differential Difference Amplifier (DDA) based on 2 generation current conveyor (CCII) with a buffer. From the simulation results evaluated by HSPICE, the proposed IA exhibits average CMRR was 109.3 dB ...

Recently, we developed a low power consumption and small total capacitance switched-capacitor filter using a single operational amplifier. It is called a semi-parallel cyclic type (SPCT) filter, in which each capacitance is in proportion to the square root of a transfer function coefficient value. In this paper, we propose the SPCT filter using a single unity gain buffer (UGB). It will be refer...

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...