A 0.5-V wideband amplifier for a 1-MHz CT complex delta-sigma modulator

  • Authors:
  • Xiao-Yong He;Kong-Pang Pun;Peter Kinget

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This brief presents a fully differential wideband amplifier for 0.5-V supply. The amplifier employs a gate-input two-stage topology and a dc common-mode feedback circuit with a Miller-amplified capacitor for frequency compensation. Designed in a 130-nm triple-well complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process with regular VT transistors, the amplifier achieves a simulated performance of 51-dB dc open-loop gain, 112-MHz unity gain bandwidth, and 67° phase margin with a load of 6.5 pF/19.6 kΩ, and consumes 600 µW at 0.5-V supply. The proposed amplifier is incorporated in a continuous-time complex Delta-Sigma modulator with a 1-MHz signal bandwidth and 64 × oversampling ratio. In the simulations, the modulator achieves a 72.5-dB signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio and consumes 2.3 mW at 0.5 V.