Title :
A family of very low-power analog building blocks based on CMOS translinear loops
Author :
Fried, Rafael ; Enz, Christian
Author_Institution :
Electron. Lab., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
This paper presents a family of very low-power and low-voltage, analog building blocks that are based on MOST translinear loops. The circuits disclosed here are: parametric current amplifier, voltage adder/subtractor, and log-domain filter. They all operate in weak inversion and use the bulk as an active terminal
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; active filters; analogue processing circuits; integrating circuits; parametric amplifiers; power amplifiers; CMOS translinear loops; MOST translinear loops; log-domain filter; low-power analog building blocks; low-voltage operation; parametric current amplifier; voltage adder; voltage subtractor; weak inversion; Adders; CMOS technology; Current mode circuits; Filters; Gain control; Laboratories; Leakage current; MOS devices; Silicon; Threshold voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Analog and Mixed IC Design, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 2nd IEEE-CAS Region 8 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Baveno
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4240-2
DOI :
10.1109/AMICD.1997.637194
