Designing 1-V op amps using standard digital CMOS technology

This paper addresses the difficulty of designing 1-V capable analog circuits in standard digital complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, Design techniques for facilitating 1-V operation are discussed and 1-V analog building block circuits are presented. Most of these circuits use the bulk-driving technique to circumvent the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor turn-on (threshold) voltage requirement. Finally, techniques are combined within a 1-V CMOS operational amplifier with rail-to-rail input and output ranges. While consuming 300 /spl mu/W, the 1-V rail-to-rail CMOS op amp achieves 1.3-MHz unity-gain frequency and 57/spl deg/ phase margin for a 22-pF load capacitance.

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