Development of a Design Platform for CMOS Amplifiers

Author

Kasturi, Prasan ; Fischer, Godi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rhode Island Univ., Kingston, RI

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

160

Abstract

This paper describes a platform created for the design of CMOS amplifiers. The user interactive design tool generates device sizes and operating points from a given set of specifications and provides an easy to use interface for tuning the amplifier performance for a given application. The algorithm used in the program uses a knowledge based design methodology with a gradient search method to estimate the sizing of each transistor. The tool also provides a variety of outputs including a spice netlist, plots for transient, DC and AC analysis and a tabulated overall system description

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; circuit CAD; gradient methods; harmonic distortion; integrated circuit design; search problems; AC analysis; CMOS amplifiers; DC analysis; folder cascode amplifier; gradient search method; knowledge based design methodology; spice netlist; total harmonic distortion; transconductance amplifier; transistor sizing; two stage amplifier; user interactive design tool; Algorithm design and analysis; Analog circuits; Analog integrated circuits; Bandwidth; Circuit topology; Design methodology; Digital circuits; Digital integrated circuits; Equations; Transconductance; Two stage amplifier; bandwidth; folder cascode amplifier; noise; total harmonic distortion; transconductance amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research in Microelectronics and Electronics 2006, Ph. D.

Conference_Location

Otranto

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0157-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RME.2006.1689920

Filename

1689920