approved: Gabor C. Temes In this thesis, novel design techniques have been proposed for implementing highlinearity SC circuits in a standard digital CMOS process. They use nonlinear MOSFET capacitors instead of linear double-poly capacitors. To reduce their nonlinearities, a bias voltage is applied to keep MOSFET capacitors in their accumulation regions. For further reduction of distortion, two...

A simple scheme for rail to rail op-amp operation is introduced. The input stage uses complementary differential pairs but only one pair is active at a time. It uses very compact control circuitry. Experimental verification is provided from a test chip prototype in 0.5 μm CMOS technology.

Nonideal factors which play a key role in performance and yield in high-precision applications of operational amplifiers are rigorously investigated. Of necessity, the combined effects of both deterministic and statistical parameters must be incorporated. The statistical characteristics of the common-mode rejection ratio and the offset of two-stage CMOS op-amps are investigated. The op-amp erro...

A new, simple, and low cost frequency independent phase shifter is presented. The design is based on a simple op-amp phase shifter with programmable floating resistor and programmable capacitor. The phase shift can be varied using the programmable resistor. Compensation for the variation in the frequency is achieved using the programmable capacitor. Experimental and simulation results confirm t...

The OPA643 provides a level of speed and dynamic range previously unattainable in a monolithic op amp. Using a de-compensated voltage feedback architecture with two internal gain stages, the OPA643 achieves exceptionally low harmonic distortion over a wide frequency range. The "classic" differential input provides all the familiar benefits of precision op amps, such as bias current cancellation...

Low voltage op amps with complementary N–P input differential pairs are known to suffer from low common mode rejection ratio due to mismatch errors and the tail current switching between the N and P input stage. To understand the contribution of the systematic and the random common mode gains to the overall common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) we studied three op amp topologies, which use N–P com...

This paper presents a methodology for high-level synthesis of continuous-time linear analog systems. Synthesis results are architectures of op-amps, sized resistors and capacitors such that their ac behavior and total silicon area are optimized. Bounds for op-amp dc gain, unity-gain frequency, input, and output impedances are found as a byproduct of synthesis. Subsequently, a circuit synthesis ...

Abstract Opioid dependence is frequent in people with HIV (PWH), but impact of opioids on immune system PWH unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that chronic opioid use exacerbates known impairment flu vaccine responses PWH. Chronic users were compared to non-opioid HIV+ and HIV− groups termed HIV+OP+ (n=28), HIV-OP+ (n=55), HIV+OP− (n=53), HIV-OP− (controls, n=58). individuals ART plasma ...