Finding all elementary circuits exploiting transconductance

Klumperink, Eric A.M. and Bruccoleri, Federico and Nauta, Bram (2001) Finding all elementary circuits exploiting transconductance. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and digital signal processing, 48 (11). pp. 1039-1053. ISSN 1057-7130

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Abstract:	Commonly used elementary circuits like single-transistor amplifier stages, the differential pair, and current mirrors basically exploit the transconductance property of transistors. This paper aims at finding all elementary transconductance-based circuits. For this purpose, all graphs of two-port circuits with one or two voltage controlled current sources are generated systematically. This results in 150 graphs of "finite transactance two-port circuits" with at least one nonzero transmission parameter. Each of them can be implemented in various ways using transistors and resistors, covering many commonly required types of two-ports. To illustrate the usefulness of the technique several alternative circuit implementations for current amplifiers and voltage followers are generated. A new wide-band low-noise amplifier generated with the technique was realized in 0.35-µm CMOS
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	©2001 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Integrated Circuit Design (ICD)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/43145
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/82.982356
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