A Folded Voltage-Combiners Biased Amplifier for Low Voltage and High Energy-Efficiency Applications

Póvoa, R.; Lourenço, N.; Martins, R.; Canelas, A.; Horta, N.; Goes, J.

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The topic of this brief is a ingle-stage amplifier biased by a doublet of voltage-combiners in a folded configuration, in order to be supplied by a power source of 1.2 V, maintaining proper dc biasing and avoiding the need of any device stacking. The topology has been automatically designed, optimized, and laid out, from sizing to layout level, using a layout-aware approach provided by the AIDA framework, a state-of-the-art analog IC design optimization framework. Experimental results prove that a gain of approximately 44 dB, together with a figure-of-merit higher than 1300 MHz × pF/mW are achievable using the proposed topology, with standard UMC 130 nm technology devices and a 1.2-V supply source. Finally, an extension to supply sources below nominal is explored, showing exciting results toward a future of high energy-efficiency amplifiers.

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Folded voltage-combiners single-stage OTA low-power low-voltage energy-efficiency gain improvement

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/57725

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Póvoa, R., Lourenço, N., Martins, R., Canelas, A., Horta, N., & Goes, J. (2019). A folded voltage-combiners biased amplifier for low voltage and high energy-efficiency applications. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 67(2), 230-234.