This work presents a four-quadrant current-mode CMOS multiplier structure based on the Advanced Compact MOSFET (ACM) Model. On the contrary of most traditional approaches for implementing CMOS multipliers, the proposed configuration is valid in the whole inversion regime of the MOS transistor, providing wide input range and improved linearity. The main theoretical principle of our multiplier li...

This paper deals with well-defined design criteria for ultra low power two stage CMOS operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) with simple yet robust implementation in nm dimension. A simple design approach which allows electrical parameters to be univocally related to each circuit element and biasing values for low frequency applications is presented.The operational transconductance ampl...

In this paper, a systematic and efficient formulation for analysis of active circuits containing operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA) is presented. The modified nodal approach is used in obtaining the system equations of active circuits. The model of operational transconductance amplifier relating to the used analysis method is given. The model is a matrix-based approach. Thus, it allo...

This paper presents a voltage based CMOS winner-take-all (WTA) circuit for analog voltage signals. The WTA circuit is based on a winner follower and wide-range transconductance amplifiers. The voltage based design uses capacitive storage for low power consumption. The circuit is modularized and its layout size is a linear function of the number of inputs. This makes the circuit easy to be imple...

This paper proposes a wideband common-gate LNA using capacitive feedback. The transconductance of the proposed LNA can be enlarged and noise figure can be improved while the conventional common-gate LNA has to use a smaller transconductance for the input impedance matching. In the experimental results using a 0.18-μm CMOS technology, the gain is 13.4 dB, NF is 2.7 dB, IIP3 is −7 dBm at 0.8GHz, ...

In this paper we explore the symmetric autozeroing ultra low-voltage current mirror, differential pair and transconductance amplifier and present some applications. The ultralow transconductance amplifier has a current boost function and resembles switch-cap and auto-zero circuits. The current boost technique have been used to implement ultra-low voltage digital logic. The simulated data presen...

This paper presents a voltage mode universal filter using two multi-output operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). Proposed multi-input single output universal filter employs two capacitors only and realizes all the standard second order filtering functions from same configuration. Filter parameters namely pole frequency and quality factor can be tuned independently without affecting each...

This paper proposes a methodology for the parametric design of operational transconductance amplifiers. In the proposed methodology, amplifier sizing is performed in two stages: an equation-based design scheme performs an approximate design, followed by optimization of the design results with genetic algorithms. The feasibility of this method was investigated with extensive simulation. For demo...

This paper presents a new configuration for linear MOS voltage-to-current conversion (transconductance). The proposed circuit combines two previously reported linearization methods [1], [2]. The topology achieves 60-dB linearity for a fully balanced input dynamic range up to 1 at a 3.3-V supply voltage, with slightly decreasing performance in the unbalanced case. The linearity is preserved duri...

In this paper, a CMOS OTA with a wide input voltage range and linearly tunable transconductance gain (gm) is presented. To achieve the linear control of transconductance, the bias current (IB) is squared by using the current squarer circuit before applying it into the main CMOS OTA. In addition, the source degeneration technique is used to extend the input voltage range. The frequency response ...