• DocumentCode
    439767
  • Title

    Multi-pole bandwidth enhancement technique for trans-impedance amplifiers

  • Author

    Analui, B. ; Hajimiri, A.

  • Author_Institution
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-26 Sept. 2002
  • Firstpage
    303
  • Lastpage
    306
  • Abstract
    A new technique for bandwidth enhancement of amplifiers is developed. Adding several passive networks, which can be designed independently, enables the control of transfer function and frequency response behavior. Parasitic capacitances of cascaded gain stages are isolated from each other and absorbed into passive networks. A simplified design procedure, using well-known filter component values is introduced. To demonstrate the feasibility of the method, a CMOS trans-impedance amplifier is implemented in 0.18µm BiCMOS technology. It achieves 9.2GHz bandwidth in the presence of 0.5pF photo diode capacitance and a trans-resistance gain of 54dBΩ, while drawing 55mA from a 2.5V supply.
  • Keywords
    Band pass filters; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Diodes; Frequency response; Isolation technology; Parasitic capacitance; Passive networks; Transfer functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2002. ESSCIRC 2002. Proceedings of the 28th European
  • Conference_Location
    Florence, Italy
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1471526