scholarly journals Low-Power, Low-Voltage Complex Gm-C Filter Structure With Self-Common-Mode Control

Author(s):  
Phanumas Khumsat

<div>This work develops a low-power and low-voltage differential Gm-C filter structure that effectively achieves selfcommon-mode control (SCC), including DC stabilization and common-mode (CM) rejection, without employing extra control circuitry. The structure relies upon an incorporation of voltageinverting amplifiers to make it inherently contain no CM positive feedback loops for DC stabilization, and to enable splitting of the core transconductors into pairs for CM signal rejection. A DC CM stability analysis reveals that stabilization of the SCC structure can be reached without any dedicated CM control circuitry. An analytical comparison on power consumption of a high-order lowpass Gm-C filter implemented using an inverter-based</div><div>transconductor for the SCC structure and the same transconductor with a CM control network (the Nauta’s technique) for the conventional structure indicates theoretical</div><div>overhead power saving by over 50%. Furthermore, an even</div><div>higher overhead power saving at over 70Ên be achieved in the complex SCC Gm-C filter because no additional inverting</div><div>amplifiers are required to eliminate CM positive feedback loops in the crossing transconductors for complexification. The impact of the inverting amplifiers on the noise and frequency characteristics as well as the compensation technique are outlined to enable design optimization. The SCC filter was verified via extensive simulations of a 5th-order 1.1-MHz elliptic complex filter in a 0.18-m CMOS process. As compared to the conventional filter counterpart with similar SNR (~63dB) and inband/out-of-band SFDRs (~52dB/56dB), the proposed structure yields an overhead power saving by 70% with an improved figure-of-merit over 40% under a 1-V supply.</div>

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phanumas Khumsat

<div>This work develops a low-power and low-voltage differential Gm-C filter structure that effectively achieves selfcommon-mode control (SCC), including DC stabilization and common-mode (CM) rejection, without employing extra control circuitry. The structure relies upon an incorporation of voltageinverting amplifiers to make it inherently contain no CM positive feedback loops for DC stabilization, and to enable splitting of the core transconductors into pairs for CM signal rejection. A DC CM stability analysis reveals that stabilization of the SCC structure can be reached without any dedicated CM control circuitry. An analytical comparison on power consumption of a high-order lowpass Gm-C filter implemented using an inverter-based</div><div>transconductor for the SCC structure and the same transconductor with a CM control network (the Nauta’s technique) for the conventional structure indicates theoretical</div><div>overhead power saving by over 50%. Furthermore, an even</div><div>higher overhead power saving at over 70Ên be achieved in the complex SCC Gm-C filter because no additional inverting</div><div>amplifiers are required to eliminate CM positive feedback loops in the crossing transconductors for complexification. The impact of the inverting amplifiers on the noise and frequency characteristics as well as the compensation technique are outlined to enable design optimization. The SCC filter was verified via extensive simulations of a 5th-order 1.1-MHz elliptic complex filter in a 0.18-m CMOS process. As compared to the conventional filter counterpart with similar SNR (~63dB) and inband/out-of-band SFDRs (~52dB/56dB), the proposed structure yields an overhead power saving by 70% with an improved figure-of-merit over 40% under a 1-V supply.</div>


2017 ◽  
Vol MCSP2017 (01) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhashree Rath ◽  
Siba Kumar Panda

Static random access memory (SRAM) is an important component of embedded cache memory of handheld digital devices. SRAM has become major data storage device due to its large storage density and less time to access. Exponential growth of low power digital devices has raised the demand of low voltage low power SRAM. This paper presents design and implementation of 6T SRAM cell in 180 nm, 90 nm and 45 nm standard CMOS process technology. The simulation has been done in Cadence Virtuoso environment. The performance analysis of SRAM cell has been evaluated in terms of delay, power and static noise margin (SNM).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Francesco Centurelli ◽  
Riccardo Della Sala ◽  
Pietro Monsurrò ◽  
Giuseppe Scotti ◽  
Alessandro Trifiletti

In this paper, we present a novel operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) topology based on a dual-path body-driven input stage that exploits a body-driven current mirror-active load and targets ultra-low-power (ULP) and ultra-low-voltage (ULV) applications, such as IoT or biomedical devices. The proposed OTA exhibits only one high-impedance node, and can therefore be compensated at the output stage, thus not requiring Miller compensation. The input stage ensures rail-to-rail input common-mode range, whereas the gate-driven output stage ensures both a high open-loop gain and an enhanced slew rate. The proposed amplifier was designed in an STMicroelectronics 130 nm CMOS process with a nominal supply voltage of only 0.3 V, and it achieved very good values for both the small-signal and large-signal Figures of Merit. Extensive PVT (process, supply voltage, and temperature) and mismatch simulations are reported to prove the robustness of the proposed amplifier.


2012 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 469-473
Author(s):  
Ruei Chang Chen ◽  
Shih Fong Lee

This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel pulse width modulation control class D amplifiers chip. With high-performance, low-voltage, low-power and small area, these circuits are employed in portable electronic systems, such as the low-power circuits, wireless communication and high-frequency circuit systems. This class D chip followed the chip implementation center advanced design flow, and then was fabricated using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacture Company 0.35-μm 2P4M mixed-signal CMOS process. The chip supply voltage is 3.3 V which can operate at a maximum frequency of 100 MHz. The total power consumption is 2.8307 mW, and the chip area size is 1.1497×1.1497 mm2. Finally, the class D chip was tested and the experimental results are discussed. From the excellent performance of the chip verified that it can be applied to audio amplifiers, low-power circuits, etc.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chrisben Gladson ◽  
Adith Hari Narayana ◽  
V. Thenmozhi ◽  
M. Bhaskar

AbstractDue to the increased processing data rates, which is required in applications such as fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, the battery power will discharge rapidly. Hence, there is a need for the design of novel circuit topologies to cater the demand of ultra-low voltage and low power operation. In this paper, a low-noise amplifier (LNA) operating at ultra-low voltage is proposed to address the demands of battery-powered communication devices. The LNA dual shunt peaking and has two modes of operation. In low-power mode (Mode-I), the LNA achieves a high gain ($$S21$$ S 21 ) of 18.87 dB, minimum noise figure ($${NF}_{min.}$$ NF m i n . ) of 2.5 dB in the − 3 dB frequency range of 2.3–2.9 GHz, and third-order intercept point (IIP3) of − 7.9dBm when operating at 0.6 V supply. In high-power mode (Mode-II), the achieved gain, NF, and IIP3 are 21.36 dB, 2.3 dB, and 13.78dBm respectively when operating at 1 V supply. The proposed LNA is implemented in UMC 180 nm CMOS process technology with a core area of $$0.40{\mathrm{ mm}}^{2}$$ 0.40 mm 2 and the post-layout validation is performed using Cadence SpectreRF circuit simulator.


Author(s):  
Ming-Cheng Liu ◽  
Paul C.-P. Chao ◽  
Soh Sze Khiong

In this paper a low power all-digital clock and data recovery (ADCDR) with 1Mhz frequency has been proposed. The proposed circuit is designed for optical receiver circuit on the battery-less photovoltaic IoT (Internet of Things) tags. The conventional RF receiver has been replaced by the visible light optical receiver for battery-less IoT tags. With this proposed ADCDR a low voltage, low power consumption & tiny IoT tags can be fabricated. The proposed circuit achieve the maximum bandwidth of 1MHz, which is compatible with the commercial available LED and light sensor. The proposed circuit has been fabricated in TSMC 0.18um 1P6M standard CMOS process. Experimental results show that the power consumption of the optical receiver is approximately 5.58uW with a supply voltage of 1V and the data rate achieves 1Mbit/s. The lock time of the ADCDR is 0.893ms with 3.31ns RMS jitter period.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 863
Author(s):  
Damarla Paradhasaradhi ◽  
Kollu Jaya Lakshmi ◽  
Yadavalli Harika ◽  
Busa Ravi Teja Sai ◽  
Golla Jayanth Krishna

In deep sub-micron technologies, high number of transistors is mounted onto a small chip area where, SRAM plays a vital role and is considered as a major part in many VLSI ICs because of its large density of storage and very less access time. Due to the demand of low power applications the design of low power and low voltage memory is a demanding task. In these memories majority of power dissipation depends on leakage power. This paper analyzes the basic 6T SRAM cell operation. Here two different leakage power reduction approaches are introduced to apply for basic 6T SRAM. The performance analysis of basic SRAM cell, SRAM cell using drowsy-cache approach and SRAM cell using clamping diode are designed at 130nm using Mentor Graphics IC Studio tool. The proposed SRAM cell using clamping diode proves to be a better power reduction technique in terms of power as compared with others SRAM structures. At 3.3V, power saving by the proposed SRAM cell is 20% less than associated to basic 6T SRAM Cell.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taehoon Kim ◽  
Sivasundar Manisankar ◽  
Yeonbae Chung

Subthreshold SRAMs profit various energy-constrained applications. The traditional 6T SRAMs exhibit poor cell stability with voltage scaling. To this end, several 8T to 16T cell designs have been reported to improve the stability. However, they either suffer one of disturbances or consume large bit-area overhead. Furthermore, some cell options have a limited write-ability. This paper presents a novel 8T static RAM for reliable subthreshold operation. The cell employs a fully differential scheme and features cross-point access. An adaptive cell bias for each operating mode eliminates the read disturbance and enlarges the write-ability as well as the half-select stability in a cost-effective small bit-area. The bit-cell also can support efficient bit-interleaving. To verify the SRAM technique, a 32-kbit macro incorporating the proposed cell was implemented with an industrial 180 nm low-power CMOS process. At 0.4 V and room temperature, the proposed cell achieves 3.6× better write-ability and 2.6× higher dummy-read stability compared with the commercialized 8T cell. The 32-kbit SRAM successfully operates down to 0.21 V (~0.27 V lower than transistor threshold voltage). At its lowest operating voltage, the sleep-mode leakage power of entire SRAM is 7.75 nW. Many design results indicate that the proposed SRAM design, which is applicable to an aggressively-scaled process, might be quite useful in realizing cost-effective robust ultra-low voltage SRAMs.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Bai ◽  
Jianzhong Zhao ◽  
Shi Zuo ◽  
Yumei Zhou

This paper presents a 2.5 Gbps 10-lane low-power low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) transceiver for a high-speed serial interface. In the transmitter, a complementary MOS H-bridge output driver with a common mode feedback (CMFB) circuit was used to achieve a stipulated common mode voltage over process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. The receiver was composed of a pre-stage common mode voltage shifter and a rail-to-rail comparator. The common mode voltage shifter with an error amplifier shifted the common mode voltage of the input signal to the required range, thereby the following rail-to-rail comparator obtained the maximum transconductance to recover the signal. The chip was fabricated using SMIC 28 nm CMOS technology, and had an area of 1.46 mm2. The measured results showed that the output swing of the transmitter was around 350 mV, with a root-mean-square (RMS) jitter of 3.65 [email protected] Gbps, and the power consumption of each lane was 16.51 mW under a 1.8 V power supply.


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