An improved tail current source for low voltage applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1173-1179

  You, Fan ^a,b,d,e   Embabi, Sherif H K ^a,f,g,h   Duque Carrillo, J Francisco ^c,i,j,k,l   Sánchez Sinencio, Edgar ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^h TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^j Texas AandM University   (United States)

^k AT and T Microelectronics   (Spain)

^l AT and T Microelectronics   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Analog circuits; Current source; Low voltage

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; TRANSISTORS;

TAIL CURRENT SOURCE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031213224     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.604073     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. E. Sackinger and W. Guggenbuhl, "A high-swing, high-impedance MOS cascode circuit," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 25. pp. 289-298, Jan. 1990.
2. P. J. Crawley and G. W. Roberts, "High-swing MOS current mirror with arbitrarily high output resistance," Electron. Lett., vol. 28 no. 4, pp. 361-363, Feb. 1992.
3. T. Serrano and B. Linares-Barranco, "The active-input regulatedcascode current mirror," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. 41. pp. 464-467, June 1994.
4. W. Krenik, et al., "High dynamic range CMOS amplifier design in reduced supply voltage environment," in Tech. Dig. Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1988, pp. 368-370.
5. F. You, S. H. K. Embabi, J. Duque-Carrillo, and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, "An improved current source for low voltage application," in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., May, 1996, pp. 97-100.
6. P. R. Gray and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits. New York: Wiley, 1984.