A two-stage capacitive-feedback differencing amplifier for temporal contrast IR sensors

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Posch;Daniel Matolin;Rainer Wohlgenannt

  • Affiliations:
  • Austrian Research Centers GmbH--ARC, Vienna, Austria 1220;Austrian Research Centers GmbH--ARC, Vienna, Austria 1220;Austrian Research Centers GmbH--ARC, Vienna, Austria 1220

  • Venue:
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article presents a small-area, ultra low-power, low-mismatch differencing transient amplifier for ROIC pixels of micro-bolometer based temporal contrast IR sensors. The two-stage capacitive-feedback amplifier works in the sub-threshold domain, has a voltage gain of 46 dB, a 3 dB bandwidth of about 10 kHz and consumes 85 nW of static power. The amplifier circuit has been fabricated in a 0.35 μm standard CMOS process and consumes less than 2000 μm2 of silicon area, enabling a square pixel size of 50 脳 50 μm for the IR sensor array.