Four-quadrant CMOS transconductance multiplier operating at low voltage and high-speed

The paper presents an analog four-quadrant transconductance multiplier designed in CMOS technology, suitable for low voltage and operating at high-speed. The transconductance multiplier with Gilbert-like architecture uses a cascade of a combination of two linear current dividers implemented by means on the differential pairs to produce a linear dependence between the tail current and the two output currents. To adopt the circuit for low voltage, simple current mirrors have been applied to couple the first- and the second stage of the current dividers cascade. High-speed operation is possible thanks to simple architecture of building blocks using RF CMOS transistors with sufficiently large biasing currents. A complete driving circuits, suitable for low voltage and high speed operation have been also presented.