Title : 
Well-defined design procedure for a three-stage CMOS OTA
         
        
            Author : 
Mita, R. ; Palumbo, G. ; Pennisi, S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi, Catania Univ., Italy
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A simple and well-defined design procedure for a three-stage CMOS OTA is presented in this paper. The approach is suited for a pencil-and-paper design and yields accurate performance optimization without introducing unnecessary circuit constraints. Simulations on a circuit implemented in a 0.35-μm technology closely agree the results expected.
         
        
            Keywords : 
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; circuit optimisation; circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; operational amplifiers; 0.35 micron; circuit constraints; circuit technology; design procedure; pencil-and-paper design; performance optimization; simulation; three-stage CMOS OTA; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; MOSFETs; Mirrors; Optimization; Transconductance; Voltage;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8834-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465153