• DocumentCode
    937584
  • Title

    Accurate and simple CMOS ´one-over´ circuit

  • Author

    Etienne-Cummings, Ralph ; Hathaway, Richard ; Van der Spiegel, Jan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    18
  • fYear
    1993
  • Firstpage
    1618
  • Lastpage
    1620
  • Abstract
    Experimental results and analysis of a simple, highly linear CMOS circuit to compute a ´one-over´ function are presented. This circuit capitalises on the linear region operation of an MOS transistor. Nonlinearity is found to be primarily produced by mobility degradation, but is easily cancelled. The circuit requires limited component matching and it operates with 8 bit accuracy for a wide input and output range.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; analogue processing circuits; linear integrated circuits; MOST linear region; linear CMOS circuit; mobility degradation; nonlinearity cancellation; one over function; wide I/O range;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19931078
  • Filename
    233078