A Low-Voltage Low-Power Rail-to-Rail Constant g_m Transconductance Amplifier

  • Authors:
  • Ahmed M. Eltawil;Ahmed M. Soliman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

  • Venue:
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper, a low-voltage low-power rail-to-rail constant g_{\it{m}} transconductance amplifier (TA) is introduced. The supply voltages are set at (±1.5 V). The circuit depends on selecting the maximum transconductance (g_{\it{m}}) to achieve an almost constant g_{\it{m}} over the entire common-mode (CM) range. The circuit is then used to realize a second-order 4 MHz lowpass filter consuming 530 μW, and a fifth-order 450 kHz lowpass elliptic filter consuming 2.3 mW. Both filters can be integrated on silicon without any external connections.