A 0.6-V tail-less inverter stacking amplifier with 0.96 PEF

L Shen, A Mukherjee, S Li, X Tang… - 2019 Symposium on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2019ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a highly power-efficient instrumentation amplifier. It adopts an inverter
stacking amplifier (ISA) based 1 st-stage that realizes 4× current reuse, thereby greatly
reducing the supply current. To boost the power efficiency and enable its robust operation
under 0.6 V supply, the tail current sources are removed. A high CMRR of 84dB is
maintained by combining chopping, closed-loop biasing, and inherent high impedance
degeneration. A 3-stage topology with a class-AB last-stage realizes high loop gain and …
This paper presents a highly power-efficient instrumentation amplifier. It adopts an inverter stacking amplifier (ISA) based 1 st -stage that realizes 4× current reuse, thereby greatly reducing the supply current. To boost the power efficiency and enable its robust operation under 0.6V supply, the tail current sources are removed. A high CMRR of 84dB is maintained by combining chopping, closed-loop biasing, and inherent high impedance degeneration. A 3-stage topology with a class-AB last-stage realizes high loop gain and power-efficient dominant-pole compensation. A prototype tail-less ISA in 180nm achieves 1.38uV rms input referred noise (IRN) within 8-kHz BW, while consuming only 2.7uW. This leads to a power efficiency factor (PEF) of 0.96. To authors' best knowledge, it is the best reported PEF to date.
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