TY - GEN
T1 - A high power efficiency class AB switched-opamp for low voltage low power sigma-delta modulators
AU - Wang, Hanging
AU - Xu, Jian
AU - Wu, Xiaobo
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Two-stage Class-A switched-opamp (SO) is the most popular module in previous low voltage low power SO sigma-delta modulators (SDM). The SO saves about 30%∼40% of the total power since its output stage is just turned off at the integrating phase. To further increase efficiency a novel high power efficiency class AB current mirror SO is proposed in this paper. By turning off the entire SO together with its common mode feedback (CMFB) circuit, the power consumption of the SO can be reduced by 50%. A Class-AB load-compensated opamp version improves the power efficiency further. The proposed SO was fabricated in a 0.35μm TSMC CMOS standard process and achieved a DC gain of 62.7dB, a GBW of 4.39MHz and a slew rate of 1.2V/μs when the load capacitor is 10pF. The effective power consumption including the CMFB circuit is 6.6μW under 1.5V supply voltage. The simulation results showed that the proposed SO can be applied to low power low voltage SDM with a sampling frequency of less than 0.5MHz.
AB - Two-stage Class-A switched-opamp (SO) is the most popular module in previous low voltage low power SO sigma-delta modulators (SDM). The SO saves about 30%∼40% of the total power since its output stage is just turned off at the integrating phase. To further increase efficiency a novel high power efficiency class AB current mirror SO is proposed in this paper. By turning off the entire SO together with its common mode feedback (CMFB) circuit, the power consumption of the SO can be reduced by 50%. A Class-AB load-compensated opamp version improves the power efficiency further. The proposed SO was fabricated in a 0.35μm TSMC CMOS standard process and achieved a DC gain of 62.7dB, a GBW of 4.39MHz and a slew rate of 1.2V/μs when the load capacitor is 10pF. The effective power consumption including the CMFB circuit is 6.6μW under 1.5V supply voltage. The simulation results showed that the proposed SO can be applied to low power low voltage SDM with a sampling frequency of less than 0.5MHz.
KW - Common mode feedback circuit (CMFB)
KW - Sigma-delta modulator (SDM)
KW - Switched opamp (SO)
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U2 - 10.1109/EDSSC.2009.5394224
DO - 10.1109/EDSSC.2009.5394224
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949757631
SN - 9781424442980
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, EDSSC 2009
SP - 429
EP - 432
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, EDSSC 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, EDSSC 2009
Y2 - 25 December 2009 through 27 December 2009
ER -