DocumentCode
1365885
Title
Tanh cascode cell amplifier - an arbitrary transfer characteristics amplifier
Author
Ding, Maosheng ; Gard, Kevin G.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Volume
46
Issue
22
fYear
2010
Firstpage
1495
Lastpage
1497
Abstract
An arbitrary transfer characteristic (TC) amplifier, called the tanh cascode cell (TCC) amplifier, is reported. This novel amplifier is capable of synthesising an arbitrary TC including the ideal rectifier transfer characteristic, which is highly desirable for analogue circuits such as power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, op-amps, instrumentation amplifiers etc. The flexible transfer characteristic, wide dynamic range and high linearity capability of the TCC amplifier are demonstrated with a 16-cell MOSFET prototype.
Keywords
instrumentation amplifiers; low noise amplifiers; mixers (circuits); operational amplifiers; power amplifiers; 16-cell MOSFET prototype; analogue circuits; arbitrary transfer characteristic amplifier; instrumentation amplifiers; low-noise amplifiers; mixers; op-amps; power amplifiers; rectifier transfer characteristic; tanh cascode cell amplifier;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.2010.2354
Filename
5614011
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