A Self-Biased High Performance Folded Cascode CMOS Op-Amp

Mandal, Pradip and Visvanathan, V (1997) A Self-Biased High Performance Folded Cascode CMOS Op-Amp. In: Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design, 1997, 4-7 January, Hyderabad,India, 429 -434.

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Abstract

Cascode CMOS op-amps use a large number of external bias voltages. This results in numerous drawbacks, namely, an area and power overhead, susceptiblity of the bias lines to noise and cross-talk and high sensitivity of the bias point to process variations. In this paper we present a self-biasing technique for folded cascode CMOS op-amps that uses no additional devices and no baas voltages other than the two supply rails. The resulting self-biased op-amps are free from the above mentioned drawbacks and exhibit the same performance as existing folded casode op-amps, except for a small reduction in slew rate. This is achieved by following transistor sizing constraints derived through detailed circuit analysis. The technique is applied to an existing high performance op-amp. Simulation results show that the high performance is maintained while nine bias voltages are eliminated.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:25
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/6396

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