Novel low-power high-dB range CMOS pseudo-exponential cells

ETRI Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 732-738

  De La Cruz Blas, Carlos A ^a   López Martín, Antonio ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Low voltage; Pseudo exponential circuits; VGA

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

LOW-VOLTAGE; PSEUDO-EXPONENTIAL CIRCUITS; VGA;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33845428018     PISSN: 12256463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.06.0106.0121     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. R. Harjani, "A Low-Power CMOS VGA for 50 Mb/s Disk Drive Read Channels," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 6, June 1997, pp. 370-376.
2. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, and M. Ismail, "A Low-Voltage, Low-Power Wide-Range CMOS Variable Gain Amplifier," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 7, July 1998, pp. 800-811.
3. K.M. Abdelfattah and AM. Soliman, "Variable Gain Amplifiers Based on a New Approximation Method to Realize the Exponential Function," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 49, no. 9, Sep. 2002, pp. 1348-1354.
4. J.H. Huijsing and J.A.V. Steenwijk, "A Monolithic Analog Exponential Converter," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-15, no. 2, Apr. 1980, pp. 162-168.
5. W.A. Serdijn, AC. van der Woerd, J. Davidse, and AH. M. van Roermund, "A Low-Voltage Low-Power Fully Iritegratable Automatic Gain Control for Hearing Instruments," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 29, no. 8, Aug. 1994, pp. 943-946.
6. T. Pan and A.A. Abidi, "A 50-dB Variable Gain Amplifier Using Parasitic Bipolar Transistor in CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 24, no. 4, Aug. 1989, pp. 951-961.
7. C.H. Kao, C.C. Tseng, and C.S. Hsieh, "Low-Voltage Exponential Function Converter," IEE Proc. Circuits, Devices and Systems, vol. 152, no. 5, Oct. 2005, pp. 485-487.
8. C. Chang and S. Liu, "Current-Mode Pseudo-Exponential Circuit with Tunable Input Range," Electronics Lett., vol. 36, no. 16, Aug. 2000, pp. 1335-1336.
9. C. Chang and S. Liu, "Pseudo-Exponential Function for MOSFETs in Saturation," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 11, Nov. 2000, pp. 1318-1321.
10. H. Liu, C. Chang, and S. Liu, "Realisation of Exponential V-I Converter Using Composite NMOS Transistors," Electro. Lett., vol. 36, no. 1, Jan 2000, pp. 8-10.
11. S. Vlassis, "CMOS Current-Mode Pseudo-Exponential Function Circuit,"Electron Lett., vol. 37, no. 8, Apr. 2001, pp. 471-472.
12. Q. Duong, T. Nguyen, and S. Lee, "Ultra Low-Voltage and Low-Power dB-Linear V-I Converter Amplifier," IEEE Conf. on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, Dec. 16-18, 2003.
13. Q. Duong and S. Lee, "A Low-Voltage Low-Power High dB-Linear and All CMOS Exponential V-I Conversion Circuit," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symp., June 12-14, 2005, pp. 683-686.
14. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, and M. Ismail, "CMOS Exponential Current-to-Voltage Converter," Electron. Lett., vol. 33, no. 12, June 1997, pp. 998-1000.
15. W. Liu and S. Liu, "CMOS Exponential Function Generator," Electron Lett., vol. 39, no. 1, Jan 2003, pp. 1-2.
16. Q. Duong, T.K. Nguyen, and S. Lee, "CMOS Exponential Current-to-Voltage Circuit Based on Newly Proposed Approximation Method," IEEE Int'l Symp. Circuits and Systems Proc., Vancouver, Canada, vol. 2, May 23-26, 2004, pp. 865-968.
17. Q. Duong, V. Krizhanovskii, H. Choi, S. Yun, M. Yang, and S. Lee, "Low-Voltage, High dB-Linear, Exponential V-V Converter," Electron. Lett, vol. 40, no. 17, Aug. 2004, pp. 1032-1034.
18. B. Maundy and S. Gift, "Novel Pseudo-Exponential Circuits," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 10, Oct. 2005, pp. 675-679.
19. C.A. De La Cruz-Bias, AJ. Lopez-Martin, and J. Ramirez-Angulo, "Compact Power-Efficient Class-AB CMOS Exponential Voltage-to-Voltage Converter,"Electron Lett., vol. 42, no. 3, Feb. 2006, pp. 127-128.
20. C.A. De La Cruz-Bias and A.J. Lopez-Martin, "Compact Power-Efficient CMOS Exponential Voltage-to-Voltage Converter," IEEE Int'l Symp. Circuits and Systems Proc., Kos, Athens, May 31-June3, 2006, pp. 1539-1542.
21. W. Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
22. E. Seevinck and R.J.Wiegerink, "Generalized Translinear Circuit Principle," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 26, no. 8, Aug. 1991, pp. 1098-1102.
23. C. Toumazou, F.J. Lidgey, and D.G. Haigh, Analog IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach, IEE Circuits and Systems Series 2, 1990.
24. S.R. Zarabadi, M. Ismail, and C.-C. Hung, "High Performance Analog VLSI Computational Circuits," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 4, Apr. 1998, pp. 644-649.
25. A.J. Lopez-Martin, S. Baswa, J. Ramirez-Angulo, and R. G. Carvajal, "Low-Voltage Super-Class AB CMOS OTA Cells with Very High Slew Rate and Power Efficiency," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 1068-1077.
26. R.G. Carvajal, J. Ramirez-Angulo, A. Lopez-Martin, A. Torralba, J.A. Gomez Galan, A. Carlosena, and F.M. Chavero, "The Flipped Voltage Follower: A Useful Cell for Low-Voltage Low-Power Circuits Design," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 52, no. 7, July 2005, pp. 1276-1291.
27. A. Nedungadi and T.R. Viswanathan, 'Design of Linear CMOS Transconductance Elements," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, vol. CAS-31, no. 10, Oct 1984, pp. 891-894.
28. M.J.M. Pelgrom, A.C.J. Duinmaijer, and A.P.G. Welbers, "Matching Properties of MOS Transistors," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 24, no. 5, Oct 1989, pp. 1433-1440.
29. S. J. Lovett, M. Welten, A. Mathewson, and B. Mason, "Optimizing MOS Transistors Mistmatch," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 1, Jan 1998, pp. 147-150.