This article proposed a simple self cascode RGC amplifier configuration to increase the gain and bandwidth. The cascode amplifier eliminates the miller capacitance between input and output and facilitates high gain, high input and output impedance with high bandwidth. However, the cascode amplifier requires relatively high supply voltage for proper operation and it decreases the output voltage ...

|A simple cascode circuit with the gate voltage of the cascode transistor being controlled by a feedback ampli er and thus named `regulated cascode' is presented. In comparison to the standard cascode circuit the minimum output voltage is lower by about 30 to 60% while the output conductance and the feedback capacitance are lower by about 100 times. An analytical large-signal, small-signal, and...

A self-cascading CMOS circuit for operation in weak inversion is presented. The self-cascoding MOSFET circuit has been shown to exhibit greater than twentY:'fold increase in the output resistance, without paying virtually any penalty in real estate and power consumption. The circuit has been used to increase the gain in the front stage of operational amplifiers, and to obtain improved performan...

Different cascode circuits are investigated with regard to their suitability for low-voltage and low-current circuits. A generalized circuit representation is introduced and different cascode circuits are discussed with respect to their small-signal parameters as well as their associated dynamic output ranges. The output voltage ranges for saturation operation of the different cascode circuits ...

A fully differential self-biased inverter-based folded cascode amplifier which uses the feedforward-regulated cascode principle is presented. A detailed small-signal analysis covering both the differential-mode and the common-mode paths of the amplifier is provided. Based on these theoretical results a design is given and transistor level simulations validate the theoretical study and also demo...

Various cascode circuits are investigated with regard to their suitability for switched current copier applications. Generalized circuit representations are introduced and different cascode circuits are compared and discussed. A method called “reference voltage and current tracking” for dynamic output range improvement is proposed. An improved regulated cascode circuit with extended dynamic out...

In this paper we report the fabrication, design and testing of an uncooled infrared imager based on an active pixel heat balancing technique. The imager is fabricated using a commercial CMOS process plus a simple electrochemical etch stop releasing step. The basic active pixel detector structure consists of a simple cascode CMOS amplifier in which the PMOS devices are built inside a thermally-i...

A technique is proposed for the design of a modified CMOS regulated cascode having an output impedance significantly greater than that of a conventional regulated cascode. Simulation results for an illustrative design, operating at 10μA from a 1V supply, show an increase in output resistance from 636MΩ and output bandwidth of 55kHz for a conventional circuit to 6.68GΩ and 389kHz, respectively, ...

An s-domain analysis of the full dynamics of the pole-zero pair (frequency doublet) associated with the broadly used CMOS active-cascode gain-enhancement technique is presented. Quantitative results show that three scenarios can arise for the settling behavior of a closed-loop active-cascode operational amplifier depending on the relative locations of the unity-gain frequencies of the auxiliary...

This paper presents the analysis of hybrid cascode compensation scheme, merged Ahuja and improved Ahuja style compensation methods, which is used in two-stage CMOS operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs). The open loop signal transfer function is derived to allow the accurate estimation of the poles and zeros. This analytical approach shows that the non-dominant poles and zeros of the hy...