• DocumentCode
    74631
  • Title

    0.013 mm2, kHz-to-GHz-bandwidth, thirdorder all-pole lowpass filter with 0.52-to- 1.11 pW/pole/Hz efficiency

  • Author

    Yong Chen ; Pui-In Mak ; Li Zhang ; He Qian ; Yan Wang

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    October 10 2013
  • Firstpage
    1340
  • Lastpage
    1342
  • Abstract
    A third-order all-pole analogue lowpass filter (LPF) with kHz-to-GHz bandwidth tunability is proposed. It embeds a current-reuse active inductor into a current-scalable source follower to realise three concurrently tunable poles in a single branch. The LPF fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS measures a tunable - 3 dB cutoff from 0.8 kHz to 1.2 GHz, under a scalable power of 1.25 nW to 4.01 mW. Owing to no tuning capacitor, the die area is extremely compact (0.013 mm2) and the achieved filter efficiency is 0.52 to 1.11 pW/pole/Hz.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; UHF filters; UHF integrated circuits; VHF filters; inductors; integrated circuit measurement; low-pass filters; CMOS technology; LPF; bandwidth 0.8 kHz to 1.2 GHz; bandwidth tunability; current-reuse active inductor; current-scalable source follower; gain -3 dB; power 1.25 nW to 4.01 mW; single branch tunable pole; size 0.18 mum; third-order all-pole analogue lowpass filter; tuning capacitor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2013.2670
  • Filename
    6651366