This paper discusses the design of low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain controls. Four different AGCs are presented, all consisting of three elementary building blocks: a controlled amplifier, a comparator and a voltage follower. Their design is treated separately. As an example, the final section describes an automatic gain control for hearing instruments. INTRODUCTION Low-v...

A hybrid C+L band erbium-doped fiber amplifier/Raman fiber amplifier (EDFA/RFA) is constructed by sharing common 1480 nm pump source(s). It is based on three-level amplification mechanism in the C band and Raman shift amplification mechanism the in L band, respectively. The gain spectra of C+L band are flattened by optimally dividing the pump power ratio of 1:29 for EDFA/RFA. Gain variation is ...

In low voltage low power CMOS systems both the high input offset and noise voltages of MOSFETs and also the moderate gain of op amps limit the accuracy of analog circuits. In this paper we present a new high-accuracy instrumentation amplifier; this circuit topology is the first ever reported "non-autozero" instrumentation amplifier which allows to compensate, beside the input offset and noise v...

Erbium-doped fiber is a gain medium exhibiting homogeneous line broadening at room temperature, while a semiconductor optical amplifier has a dominant feature of inhomogeneous line broadening. In this work, a semiconductor optical amplifier is incorporated into the cavity of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser to form a hybrid gain medium. Theoretical analysis shows that such a gain medium support...

Low Noise Amplifier, CMOS, Noise Canceling, Technique. This paper presents a 0.8V, 3.6GHz narrow band CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA). A current-reused technique is employed to increase the gain of LNA. Also, in order to achieve low noise figure, a noise canceling technique is used in the output stage. The high gain LNA was designed and simulated in 0.13 μm CMOS process. A gain of 27 dB at 3.6GH...

The design of a fully differential CMOS transconductance amplifier is presented in this paper. This amplifier is to be used in the first stage of a 13-bit pipelined A/D converter, and was designed to meet the necessary specifications at a minimum level of power consumption. The amplifier presented below was based on a two-stage design of a telescopic cascode input stage followed by a common-sou...

ETRI Journal, Volume 29, Number 5, October 2007 ABSTRACT⎯An ultra-wideband low-noise amplifier is proposed with operation up to 8.2 GHz. The amplifier is fabricated with a 0.18-μm CMOS process and adopts a twostage cascode architecture and a simplified Chebyshev filter for high gain, wide band, input-impedance matching, and low noise. The gain of 19.2 dB and minimum noise figure of 3.3 dB are m...

In the literature, Improved Recycling Folded Cascode (IRFC) Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) is proposed for enhancing the DC gain and the Unity Gain Bandwidth (UGB) of the Recycling Folded Cascode (RFC) OTA. In this paper, an enhanced IRFC (EIRFC) OTA which uses positive feedback at the cascode node is proposed for enhancing the differential mode (DM) gain without changing the unit...

In the literature, Improved Recycling Folded Cascode (IRFC) Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) is proposed for enhancing the DC gain and the Unity Gain Bandwidth (UGB) of the Recycling Folded Cascode (RFC) OTA. In this paper, an enhanced IRFC (EIRFC) OTA which uses positive feedback at the cascode node is proposed for enhancing the differential mode (DM) gain without changing the unit...

This paper discusses the use of a low gain amplifier and a passive switched-capacitor (SC) network to enable the SC integrator function. The method is applied to a deltasigma modulator to achieve high resolution as proved by the 65-nm CMOS technology test vehicle. Compared with the conventional operational amplifier (op-amp)-based SC integrator, this solution utilizes a low-gain open-loop ampli...