Design of micropower class AB transconductors: A systematic approach

A systematic design approach to achieve micropower class AB CMOS transconductors is presented. It includes techniques to get rail-to-rail operation and continuous transconductance tuning, based on floating and Quasi-Floating Gate transistors. Application of the proposed design approach leads to a new family of high-performance power-efficient class AB CMOS transconductors. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, 12 transconductors derived from this common framework have been designed and fabricated in a [email protected] CMOS technology. Measurement results show THD values for 2V inputs of -56dB for a static power of [email protected] and silicon area <0.07mm^2.

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