This paper reports the design of a highly-linear CMOS amplifier for Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA) applications. A better than –60dB 3rd harmonic distortion at differential output level of 1V peak-to-peak is obtained by utilizing a linearization scheme that does not rely on the active devices. The amplifier maintains 3dB bandwidth over 300MHz. A noise figure at 8.6dB is obtained with source impe...

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...

This paper describes a symmetric ultra lowvoltage (ULV) rail-to-rail CMOS amplifiers using floating gates. Simulation of a compact differential ULV amplifier is presented.

a novel low noise trans-impedance amplifier is proposed using low cost 0.18 µm cmos technology. a resistive-capacitive feedback is used to extend the bandwidth of the amplifier. as the structure is inductor less, it is suitable for low cost integrated optical interconnects. in this paper improved particle swarm optimization have applied to determine optimal trans-resistance and noise of propose...

a digital look-up table adaptive predistortion technique using a six-port receiver for power amplifier linearization is presented. the system is designed in ka-band for a dvb-s2 satellite link. we use a six-port receiver at the linearizationloop in place of classic heterodyne receivers. the six-port receiver is implemented by the use of passive microwavecircuits and detector diodes. this approa...

A thermal differential operational amplifier was developed through an experimentally verified analysis of design parameters. In general, an operational amplifier (or Op-Amp) is a device which amplifies a signal by a constant factor, called the amplifier's gain. A thermal differential Op-Amp takes a small temperature difference between its negative and positive inputs and produces a much larger ...

This paper presents a fully differential power amplifier (PA) with high efficiency and linearity. To improve the linearity, an optimum gate bias is applied for the cancellation of the nonlinear harmonics. The amplifier delivers a 6 dB of power gain. The signal noise distortion and total harmonic distortion of 55.68 dB and 0.144% has been shown. The compensation characteristics of the circuit ha...

In this paper we explore the symmetric autozeroing ultra low-voltage current mirror, differential pair and transconductance amplifier and present some applications. The ultralow transconductance amplifier has a current boost function and resembles switch-cap and auto-zero circuits. The current boost technique have been used to implement ultra-low voltage digital logic. The simulated data presen...

We develop a wideband traveling-wave formalism for analyzing quantum mechanically a degenerate parametric amplifier. The formalism is based on spatial differential equations-spatial Langevin equations-that propagate temporal Fourier components of the field operators through the nonlinear medium. In addition to the parametric nonlinearity, the Langevin equations include absorption and associated...