Low-power Gm-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers

Mincey, John S.; Briseno-Vidrios, Carlos; Silva-Martinez, Jose; Rodenbeck, Christopher T.

doi:10.1109/tcsii.2016.2599027

Title: Low-power G_m-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers

Abstract

This study deals with the design of low-power, high performance, continuous-time filters. The proposed OTA architecture employs current-reuse differential difference amplifiers in order to produce more power efficient Gm-C filter solutions. To demonstrate this, a 6th order low-pass Butterworth filter was designed in 0.18 m CMOS achieving a 65-MHz -3-dB frequency, an in-band input-referred third-order intercept point of 12.0 dBm, and an input referred noise density of 40 nV/Hz1=2, while only consuming 8.07 mW from a 1.8 V supply and occupying a total chip area of 0.21 mm2 with a power consumption of only 1.19 mW per pole.

Authors:

^[1]; Briseno-Vidrios, Carlos ^[2]; Silva-Martinez, Jose ^[1]; Rodenbeck, Christopher T. ^[3]

Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Silicon Labs, Austin, TX (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); U.S. Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C. (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Contributing Org.:: U.S. Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 1291339

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1340240

Report Number(s):: SAND-2016-7568J; SAND-2016-3682J
Journal ID: ISSN 1549-7747; 646391; TRN: US1700135

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. II, Express Briefs

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. II, Express Briefs; Journal ID: ISSN 1549-7747

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; active filters; OTA-C filters; continuous-time filters; differential difference amplifier; transconductance-C

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                    Mincey, John S., Briseno-Vidrios, Carlos, Silva-Martinez, Jose, and Rodenbeck, Christopher T. Low-power Gm-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
Web.  doi:10.1109/tcsii.2016.2599027.

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                    Mincey, John S., Briseno-Vidrios, Carlos, Silva-Martinez, Jose, & Rodenbeck, Christopher T. Low-power Gm-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsii.2016.2599027

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                    Mincey, John S., Briseno-Vidrios, Carlos, Silva-Martinez, Jose, and Rodenbeck, Christopher T. Wed .  
"Low-power Gm-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsii.2016.2599027.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1291339.

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  title        = {Low-power Gm-C filter employing current-reuse differential difference amplifiers},

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  abstractNote = {This study deals with the design of low-power, high performance, continuous-time filters. The proposed OTA architecture employs current-reuse differential difference amplifiers in order to produce more power efficient Gm-C filter solutions. To demonstrate this, a 6th order low-pass Butterworth filter was designed in 0.18 m CMOS achieving a 65-MHz -3-dB frequency, an in-band input-referred third-order intercept point of 12.0 dBm, and an input referred noise density of 40 nV/Hz1=2, while only consuming 8.07 mW from a 1.8 V supply and occupying a total chip area of 0.21 mm2 with a power consumption of only 1.19 mW per pole.},

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