Analysis and design of low-distortion CMOS source followers
This paper presents the analysis of CMOS technology based nMOS source follower (NSF), pMOS source follower (PSF), and cascade-complementary source follower(CCSF) using a simplified large-signal model. Three new large-signal second harmonic equations and high-frequency transfer functions are derived....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91313 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6000 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper presents the analysis of CMOS technology based nMOS source follower (NSF), pMOS source follower (PSF), and cascade-complementary source follower(CCSF) using a simplified large-signal model. Three new large-signal second harmonic equations and high-frequency transfer functions are derived. Optimization strategies which permit optimal design for low-distortion NSF, PSF, and CCSF are proposed. This includes a new complementary linearization method introduced for CCSF. With employment of dedicated optimization, the CCSF can achieve significantly better low-distortion broad-band characteristics than the other schemes. Comparative HSPICE simulated results for the three source followers have shown good agreement with the second-order analytical results using the simplified BSIM3 model
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