Although CMOS Time-of-Flight Range Image Sensors have been recently realized, the fabrication process is modified by inserting an extra mask layer to allow efficient TOF dependent charge transfer. This work focuses on the selection procedure of amplifiers to be used in the design of the TOF pixel using the standard CMOS process. From our analysis, it is found that the Cascode amplifier is the b...

In this work, a detailed comparison of four equivalent charge-sensitive, folded-cascode amplifiers in terms of noise performance is presented. A couple of complementary structures, one with a noise-optimised input nMOSFET and the other with a noise-optimised input pMOSFET were designed in 0.35 μm CMOS process by Austria MicroSystems (AMS). Another couple of complementary structures consisting o...

This paper reviewed the efficiency of CMOS class AB power amplifier topology especially in gigahertz frequencies. is a compromise between A and B terms linearity 50% to 78.5%. However, cannot have good simultaneously due breakdown gate-oxide voltage effects from hot carrier. The oxide prevents optimum drain signal effect carrier will reduce quality overall PA design. Several works year 1999 201...

In this paper, a low Power, Gain Boosted Recycling Folded Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifier (GB-RFC OTA) is described. The proposed GB-RFC OTA is designed using 130nm CMOS technology and achieves enhanced gain, unity gain bandwidth and slew rate with the low Power budget. The proposed circuit operates on 1V supply voltage and 200 μA bias current and consumes a power of 798μW.The GB...

First, we create a MOS-NDR (negative differential resistance) cell and then put two MOS-NDR cells in cascode (totem-pole) structure. With MOBILE (monostable-bistable transition logic element) theorem we can built a MOS-NDR inverter by placing a NMOS in parallel with the lower part of the cascode structure. The MOS-NDR inverter cascades two Common-Source amplifier and feedback to MOS-NDR inverte...

A low noise amplifier has been designed using a 2SK117 N channel J-FET as the input device in a cascode [1] configuration. Noise measurements on this amplifier yield a low frequency noise current of 0.25 fA/Yfu and a voltage noise of less than 1.2 n V NHz in the 500 Hz to 50 kHz region. Bloyet et al. [2] suggest a figure of merit of the product of the noise voltage and current as being appropri...

A novel circuit topology for high-gain distributed amplifiers is presented in this study. Based on the conventional distributed architecture, the gain cells are realized by cascading cascode stages for gain enhancement. In addition, the stagger-tuning technique is extensively utilized in the design of the cascode stages as well as the cascaded stages, leading to significant improvement in terms...