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 ...

The influence of different gate-layout geometries on a cascode nMOSFET’s transit frequencywas studied. Four cascode nMOSFET transistors were fabricated using different interdigitized gate layout geometries. Furthermore, a conventional cascode transistor was fabricated in order to compare it with the proposed interdigitized layouts. The transistors were measured on-wafer and the maximum transit ...

After explaining the basic operation of a SiC JFET plus silicon MOSFET cascode circuit, the dynamics of cascode switching will be discussed and the use of a QRR tester to evaluate the reverse-recovery characteristics of a cascode circuit will be explained. A comparison of the cascode’s reverse recovery with that of a SiC MOSFET reveals that the JFET cascode actually performs better than the SiC...

In this paper we present a three-stage fully differential operational amplifier in 120nm digital CMOS. To reach high gain gain-boosted cascodes in the first stage are used. The gain-boost amplifiers are realized as two-stage amplifiers with self cascodes. A DC gain of 108dB and an unity-gain frequency of 1.06GHz are achieved at 1.2V supply. The operational amplifier is appropriate for supply vo...

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 research paper, Simulation and Analysis of innovative folded cascode Operational Amplifier based on carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been performed using 45 nm technology. DC voltage gain, average power, bandwidth and output resistance have been computed. CNT based folded cascode Op Amp results in high performance with the increase of CNTs. For example, the increase in DC gain is 41.48% in pC...

|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 current mirror (CM) based on self cascode arrangement, useful for low voltage analog and mixed mode circuit is proposed. The CM uses 4 MOSFETs, has high input and output swing, operating at ± 0.5 V supply. Pspice simulations confirm the high performance of this CM having a bandwidth of 2.1 GHz. Resistive and capacitive compensations result in about threefold bandwidth increase to 6.1 GHz.