This paper presents two schemes of high performance CMOS current mirror, one of them is used for operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) in analog VLSI systems. The linearity, output impedance, bandwidth and accuracy are the most parameters to determine the performance of the current mirror. Here a comparison of two architectures based on same architecture of the amplifier is presented. Th...

In order to intelligently select the correct high speed op amp for a given application, an understanding of the various op amp topologies as well as the tradeoffs between them is required. The two most widely used topologies are voltage feedback (VFB) and current feedback (CFB). An overview of these topologies has been presented in previous tutorials (MT-050, MT051, MT-052), but the following d...

The OTA is an amplifier whose differential input voltage produces an output current. Thus, it is a voltage controlled current source. Operational transconductance amplifier is one of the most significant building-blocks in integrated continuous-time filters. We show that the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA), as the active element in basic building blocks. In this paper Low pass filt...