Abstract:
A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier circuit includes an input and an output. A power amplifier transistor has a first terminal connected to the input, a second terminal connected to the output, and a third terminal defined by a degeneration inductance. A first capacitor is connected to the third terminal of the power amplifier transistor, along with a negative capacitance circuit connected in series with the first capacitor. The negative capacitance and the first capacitor define a series resonance at a predefined operating frequency band, which shunts the degeneration inductance of the third terminal.
Abstract:
A transadmittance amplifier stage is coupled to a transimpedance amplifier stage to form a continuous time linear equalizer. The transadmittance amplifier stage has first and second gain paths and is configured to input a first signal and output a second signal. The first gain path is configured to provide a DC gain recovery and a first high frequency gain to the first signal. The second gain path is configured to provide a second high frequency gain to the first signal. The second signal is generated by the transadmittance amplifier stage based on the gain recovery of the first signal and the high frequency gains of the first signal. The transimpedance amplifier stage is configured to input the second signal from the transadmittance amplifier stage and convert the second signal to an output voltage signal.
Abstract:
An amplifier 100 has an input 108 for receiving a signal to be amplified and an output 110 for outputting an amplified signal. The amplifier 100 comprises a main amplification stage 102, an auxiliary amplification stage 104 and a controller 106. The main amplification stage 102 comprises a main amplification circuit 200 and the auxiliary amplification stage 104 comprises an auxiliary amplification circuit 202. Each of the main amplification circuit 200 and the auxiliary amplification circuit 202 comprises a p-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor T1, T3 and an n-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor T2, T4. The PMOS and NMOS transistors T3, T4 of the auxiliary amplification circuit 202 are either identical to the PMOS and NMOS transistors T1, T2 of the main amplification circuit 200 or are scaled down copies of the PMOS and NMOS transistors T1, T2 of the main amplification circuit 200. The auxiliary amplification circuit 202 amplifies the input signal to generate a control signal and the controller 106 controls a function of the amplifier 100 based on the control signal.
Abstract:
Disclosed are systems implementing an implicit Feed-Forward Compensated (FFC) op-amp, where the main FFC port is realized by the P-side (404) of the CMOS input structure of the 2nd (412) and 3rd (414) stages of the op-amp, while the main signal path is through the N-side (402). The 2nd-stage (412) NMOS input pair is split into two pairs, one is used to route the main path while the other is used for auxiliary FFC. The disclosed implicit FCC op-amp is unconditionally stable with adequate phase lead. According to some embodiments, the disclosed op-amp, which may be a wide-band op-amp, can be used in highly linear applications operative at intermediate frequency (IF), such as signal buffers for high-performance data converters or radio-frequency (RF) modulators and demodulators, continuous-time (CT) filters or sigma-delta data converters.