Finding all elementary circuits exploiting transconductance

Eric A.M. Klumperink; F. Bruccoleri; Bram Nauta

doi:10.1109/82.982356

Finding all elementary circuits exploiting transconductance

Eric A.M. Klumperink, F. Bruccoleri, Bram Nauta

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Commonly used elementary circuits like single-transistor amplifier stages, the differential pair, and current mirrors basically exploit the transconductance property of transistors. This paper aims at finding all elementary transconductance-based circuits. For this purpose, all graphs of two-port circuits with one or two voltage controlled current sources are generated systematically. This results in 150 graphs of "finite transactance two-port circuits" with at least one nonzero transmission parameter. Each of them can be implemented in various ways using transistors and resistors, covering many commonly required types of two-ports. To illustrate the usefulness of the technique several alternative circuit implementations for current amplifiers and voltage followers are generated. A new wide-band low-noise amplifier generated with the technique was realized in 0.35-?m CMOS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1039-1053
Number of pages	15
Journal	IEEE transactions on circuits and systems
Volume	48
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/82.982356
Publication status	Published - Nov 2001

Keywords

Computer Aided Design
circuit synthesis
circuittopology
systematic circuit generation
transconductor
voltage-controlled current source
EWI-14346
CODEN-ICSPE5
METIS-205988
IR-43145
Analog circuit design

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