Wide-band low-power CMOS transimpedance preamplifier

Author

Tao, Rui ; Berroth, Manfred ; Wang, Zhi Gong

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. & Opt. Commun. Eng., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

6-11 June 2004

Firstpage

983

Abstract

A wide bandwidth, low power consumption transimpedance preamplifier has been designed and implemented in 0.18 μm standard digital CMOS technology. A circuit topology with two gain stages is used to provide increased open-loop gain compared to a single stage design, and greater close-loop stability than a three-stage amplifier. The preamplifier has a transimpedance of 56 dBΩ with the bandwidth of 2.5 GHz, and can operate at 2.5 Gb/s with the dynamic range from 15 μA up to 1.5 mA. The power consumption is only 15 mW using 1.8 V power supply.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; low-power electronics; network topology; power consumption; preamplifiers; wideband amplifiers; 0.18 micron; 1.8 V; 15 mW; 15 muA to 1.5 mA; 2.5 GByte/s; 2.5 GHz; circuit topology; close-loop stability; digital CMOS technology; open-loop gain; power consumption; three-stage amplifier; wide-band low-power CMOS transimpedance preamplifier; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; Integrated circuit technology; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Parasitic capacitance; Preamplifiers; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2004 IEEE MTT-S International

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2004.1339142

Filename

1339142