Title :
High-swing MOS current mirror with arbitrarily high output resistance
Author :
Crawley, P.J. ; Roberts, G.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
A new current mirror circuit scheme is proposed that allows an arbitrary number of transistors to be cascoded creating a current mirror circuit with maximum output voltage swing and very high output resistance.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; linear integrated circuits; CMOS process; MOS current mirror; cascode current mirror circuit; high output resistance; output voltage swing;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19920226