A BiCMOS cell with applications to highly linear analog transconductor realizations

Author

Khachab, Nabil I. ; Al-Saqer, Abdulaziz ; Varghese, Joji G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

12-15 May 1996

Firstpage

312

Abstract

A basic six-transistor cell comprising of a MOST input and tuning stage, in addition to a bipolar current mirror and source stage has been presented. This overall BiCMOS setup functions with high linearity at reduced power supplies and has been configured for voltage programmable transconductor applications. Simulation results confirm the high performance operation of the proposed Voltage to Current Converters (VIC´s)

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; analogue processing circuits; circuit tuning; convertors; linearisation techniques; BiCMOS cell; MOST input stage; MOST tuning stage; bipolar current mirror; bipolar source stage; high performance operation; highly linear analog transconductor; six-transistor cell; voltage programmable transconductor applications; voltage to current converters; Application software; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Impedance; Linearity; MOSFETs; Mirrors; Threshold voltage; Transconductance; Transconductors; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1996. ISCAS '96., Connecting the World., 1996 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3073-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1996.539892

Filename

539892