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LIANG Yuhua, ZHENG Zirui, LIU Shubin, et al., “A 1.8-V 240-MHz 2.19-mW Four-Stage CMOS OTA with a Segmenting Frequency Compensation Technique,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 853-860, 2021, doi: 10.1049/cje.2021.06.007
Citation: LIANG Yuhua, ZHENG Zirui, LIU Shubin, et al., “A 1.8-V 240-MHz 2.19-mW Four-Stage CMOS OTA with a Segmenting Frequency Compensation Technique,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 853-860, 2021, doi: 10.1049/cje.2021.06.007

A 1.8-V 240-MHz 2.19-mW Four-Stage CMOS OTA with a Segmenting Frequency Compensation Technique

doi: 10.1049/cje.2021.06.007
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62074119, No.62090041, No.61874173, No.61934009, No.61674118), National Key R&D Program of China (No.2019YFA0706102), the Primary Research & Development Plan of Shaanxi Province (No.2020GY-017), the Scientific Research Project of Shaanxi Education Department (No.20JY019), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2019M653553), and Basic Science Research Fund in Xidian University (No.XJS201105).

  • Received Date: 2020-09-03
    Available Online: 2021-09-02
  • A four-stage Operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) used in an infrared temperature sensor adopting the proposed Feed-forward Gm-stage and segmenting nested Miller compensation technique is presented. The purpose of the proposed segment compensation is primarily to make more amplifier stages concatenated. The circuit linked several transconductance stages to form a segment, and linked several segments to form a large multistage amplifier. For example, a two-stage amplifier linked with a three-stage amplifier can realize a five-stage amplifier, two three-stage amplifiers linked can realize a six-stage amplifier. A four-stage amplifier in the form of 2+2 (two stages and two stages) was used as an example to verify this compensation method. The proposed OTA is designed in the 180nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor process. It consists of two parts which ensure the stability and improve the bandwidth performance. The first part is a feed-forward transconductance stage, and the second part is the two-segment transconductance stages with the Miller compensation techniques employed within and between the two segments. Based on the small-signal model, stability analysis and theoretical derivation are performed in theory. On condition of a 2-pF load capacitance, a direct current gain of 109dB and a gain-bandwidth of 240MHz with a phase margin of 50° can be achieved. The proposed design consumes 2.19mW in a 1.8-V supply voltage. The transient simulation indicates that the settling time of the output is 19ns with the settling error being 1%, and the slew rate is 114V/μs.
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