GBW Enhancement of a Two Stage Amplifier using Dual Approach of Feed-forward and Passive Compensation

Bansal, Urvashi; Gupta, Maneesha; Rai, Shireesh

Document Type : Review Article

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Division of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Sector-3, Dwarka, New Delhi, Delhi 110078, India

Abstract

Design of a very compact two stage amplifier is proposed by merging passive frequency compensation with a feed forward compensation technique, which achieves significant improvement in gain-bandwidth product (GBW), slew rate and phase margin with lower supply voltage requirement. The mathematical analysis given in this paper justify that the proposed technique offers the advantage of locating poles and zeros at higher frequencies than with the conventional method . The workability of the proposed amplifier has been verified by using Mentor Graphics Eldo simulation tool with TSMC CMOS 0.18 µm process parameters. The simulated results show a GBW of 150 MHz and average slew rate of 98 V/µs with a power consumption of 3.2 mW.

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Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering

GBW Enhancement of a Two Stage Amplifier using Dual Approach of Feed-forward and Passive Compensation

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Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
March 2017

GBW Enhancement of a Two Stage Amplifier using Dual Approach of Feed-forward and Passive Compensation

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Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1March 2017

Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
March 2017