A voltage driver using the rail to rail operation in CMOS 0, 25 μm technology

Author

Meddour, Fayçal ; Dibi, Zohir ; Kouda, Souhil ; Abdi, Mohamed Amir ; Manck, Otto

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Electron. Av., Batna Univ.

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

121

Abstract

A rail to rail input common mode range is an important requirement in operational amplifiers for some applications. The most common method for implementing full range operation is by using a complementary differential pair. It is simply a compound structure that consists of NMOS and PMOS differential pairs connected in parallel. The compound structure achieves rail to rail operation; however, it produces variations in the transconductance over the input common mode range. The variations obstruct the design of an optimal operational amplifier, to avoid the problem of transconductance variations, an other structure, consists of two op-amps one n-type and the other p-type controlled by a digital control system, is proposed to achieve the ldquorail to railrdquo operation. The layout of this structure is involved with CMOS 0.25 mum technology.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; driver circuits; operational amplifiers; CMOS technology; NMOS differential pairs; PMOS differential pairs; complementary differential pair; digital control system; input common mode range; n-type; optimal operational amplifier; p-type; rail to rail operation; size 0.25 mum; voltage driver; CMOS technology; Digital control; Driver circuits; MOS devices; Operational amplifiers; Rail to rail amplifiers; Rail to rail inputs; Rail to rail operation; Transconductance; Voltage; common mode range; operational amplifier; rail to rail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Test Workshop, 2008. IDT 2008. 3rd International

Conference_Location

Monastir

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3479-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3478-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDT.2008.4802479

Filename

4802479