A 70 dBΩ 2.3 GHz low noise transimpedance amplifier

Author

Yang Jiao ; Weimin Li ; Dianwei Zhang ; Wu Wen

Author_Institution

Beijing Microelectron. Technol. Inst., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A low-noise transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for 2.5 Gb/s family is presented using 0.35 μm BiCMOS technology. It would be used in radiation detectors to transform the current pulse produced by a photo-sensitive device into an output voltage pulse with a specified amplitude and shape. In this paper the mathematical analysis of the proposed TIA is presented together with a detailed analytical noise optimization. For the gain boosting, Cherry-Hooper amplifier is introduced for the second stage amplification. Also a method for eliminating the DC current of the input photodiodes (PD) is proposed. The chip measured results show the TIA achieves a constant gain of 70 dBΩ from 125 kHz to 2.3 GHz when connected to a 0.85 pF load, average input referred noise of 2.13 pA/√Hz up to 0.8 GHz, 18 mA supply current at +3.3 V including the output buffer. The die size is 30mil×50mil.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; mathematical analysis; operational amplifiers; particle detectors; BiCMOS technology; Cherry-Hooper amplifier; DC current; analytical noise optimization; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; capacitance 0.85 muF; current 18 mA; current pulse; frequency 125 kHz to 2.3 GHz; frequency 2.3 GHz; gain boosting; input photodiodes; low noise transimpedance amplifier; mathematical analysis; output voltage pulse; photo-sensitive device; radiation detectors; second stage amplification; size 0.35 mum; voltage 3.3 V; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Equations; Gain; Mathematical model; Noise; Radio frequency; Cherry-Hooper amplifier; DC cancellation circuit; Transimpedance amplifier; broadband amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), 2013 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCTD.2013.6662234

Filename

6662234