This paper presents a chopper instrumentation amplifier designed in 28nm CMOS technology. The operational amplifier has a rail-to-rail folded cascode input stage, which ensures a constant gm over the available common-mode range. It is characterized by a Nested Miller compensation. All transistors operate in sub-threshold region; thus the opamp has been designed through a specific procedure for sub-threshold operation. The chopper technique is exploited to reduce the input referred offset and noise. The circuit operates with 0.9 V supply voltage and exhibits a simulated 106dB DC gain and 329kHz GBW. Montecarlo simulations demonstrate an offset distribution with 2.2μV standard deviation. The input noise spectral density is equal to 27nV/√Hz, giving a noise efficiency factor of 8.
Pipino, A., Pezzotta, A., Resta, F., DE MATTEIS, M., Baschirotto, A. (2016). A rail-to-rail-input chopper instrumentation amplifier in 28nm CMOS. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (pp.73-76). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440252].
A rail-to-rail-input chopper instrumentation amplifier in 28nm CMOS
PIPINO, ALESSANDRA
Primo
;PEZZOTTA, ALESSANDROSecondo
;RESTA, FEDERICA;DE MATTEIS, MARCELLOPenultimo
;BASCHIROTTO, ANDREAUltimo
2016
Abstract
This paper presents a chopper instrumentation amplifier designed in 28nm CMOS technology. The operational amplifier has a rail-to-rail folded cascode input stage, which ensures a constant gm over the available common-mode range. It is characterized by a Nested Miller compensation. All transistors operate in sub-threshold region; thus the opamp has been designed through a specific procedure for sub-threshold operation. The chopper technique is exploited to reduce the input referred offset and noise. The circuit operates with 0.9 V supply voltage and exhibits a simulated 106dB DC gain and 329kHz GBW. Montecarlo simulations demonstrate an offset distribution with 2.2μV standard deviation. The input noise spectral density is equal to 27nV/√Hz, giving a noise efficiency factor of 8.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.