• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2013

This paper presents a two-stage power-efficient class-AB operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based on an adaptive biasing circuit suited to low-power dissipation and low-voltage operation. The OTA shows significant improvements in driving capability and power dissipation owing to the novel adaptive biasing circuit. The OTA dissipates only $0.4{\mu}W$ from a supply voltage of ${\pm}0.6V$ and exhibits excellent high driving, which results in a slew rate improvement of more than 250 times that of the conventional class-AB amplifier. The design is fabricated using $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.563-566
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• 1988

A current-controlled CMOS operational transconductance amplifier(OTA), whose transconductance is directly proportional to the DC bias current, has been developed for many electronic circuit applications. It features that its transconductance is insensitive to temperature unlike that of the bipolar OTA. This property makes it possible to use the proposed OTA as a basic buliding block in electrically variable circuit design. The SPICE simulation shows that the conversion sensitivity of the circuit is 44.62 mv /${\mu}A$ and the linearity error less than 0.54 % over a bias current range from 2 ${\mu}A$ to 120 ${\mu}A$ when the output is loaded with a 1${\Omega}$ resistor.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제31A권12호
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• pp.135-141
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• 1994

A linear BiCMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is described. It consists of a CMOS linear transconductor and a bipolar translineear current gain cell followed by three CMOS current mirrors. The proposed circuit has comparable linearity and temperature stability but superior dc characteristics to its bipolar counterpart. A test circuit with a transconductance of 47.3$\mu$s has been simulated. Simulation results show that a linearity error of less than $\pm$1 percent over an input volgate range from -1.0 to 1.0 V and a output dc offset current as small as-3.6 nA can be obtained.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.83-91
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• 1990

전압제어 발진기(VCO:coltage controlled oscillator)는 FM 신호 변조, 주파수 안정기와 디지탈 클럭 재생과 같은 부분의 적용에 필수적인 기본회로이다. 본 논문에서는 BiCMOS 회로를 이용한 차동 증폭기를 사용하여 OTA(operational transconductance amplifier)회로와 OP amp를 설계하고 이를 토대로 하여 VCO 회로를 설계하였다. 그리고 이 VCO는 OTA와 전압 제어 적분기, 그리고 슈미트 트리거 회로로 구성이 되어 있다. 종래에는 CMOS를 사용하여 VCO를 설계하였지만 여기서는 구동능력이 좋은 BiCMOS를 사용하여 VCO를 설계하였다. 이 회로를 SPICE로 시뮬레이션 한 결과 출력 주파수는 105KHz에서 141KHz이며 변화 감도는 15KHz였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.534-548
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• 2020

This study presents a new architecture for a field programmable analog array (FPAA) for use in low-frequency applications, and a generalized circuit realization method for the implementation of nth-order elliptic filters. The proposed designs of both the FPAA and elliptic filters are based on the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) used in implementing OTA-C filters for biopotential signal processing. The proposed FPAA architecture has a flexible, expandable structure with direct connections between configurable analog blocks (CABs) that eliminates the use of switches. The generalized elliptic filter circuit realization provides a simplified, direct synthetic method for an OTA-C symmetric balanced structure for even/odd-nth-order low-pass filters (LPFs) and notch filters with minimum number of components, using grounded capacitors. The filters are mapped on the FPAA, and both architectures are validated with simulations in LTspice using 90-nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Both proposed FPAA and filters generalized synthetic method achieve simple, flexible, low-power designs for implementation of biopotential signal processing systems.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.1260-1264
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• 1990

A voltage controlled CMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA), whose transconductance is directly proportional to the DC bias voltage, has been designed for many electronic circuit applications. It consists of a differential pair and three ourrent mirrors. The SPICE simulation shows that the conversion sensitivity of the OTA is 41.817 \ulcornerho/V and the linearity error is less than 0.402% over a bias voltage range from -2. OV to 1. OV. Electrically tunalble filters based on voltage controlled impedances, which are realized with OTA's, also have been designed. The SPICE simulation shows that a second-order bandpass filter, whose center frequency is 23KHz at -1. OV, has the conversion sensitivity 6.6KHz/V and the linearity error less than 0.822% over a voltage range from -2.OV tp 1.OV, Tne OTA has been laid out with the 3\ulcorner n-well CMOS design rule adopted in ISRC (inter-university semiconductor research center). The chip size was about $0.756x0.945mm^2$.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.785-793
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• 2007

In this paper, we present an integrated rail-to-rail fully differential operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) working at low-supply voltages (1.5 V) with reduced power consumption and showing high DC gain. An embedded adaptive biasing circuit makes it possible to obtain low stand-by power dissipation (lower than 0.17 mW in the rail-to-rail version), while the high DC gain (over 78 dB) is ensured by positive feedback. The circuit, fabricated in a standard CMOS integrated technology (AMS 0.35 ${\mu}m$), presents a 37 V/${\mu}s$ slew-rate for a capacitive load of 15 pF. Experimental results and high values of two quality factors, or figures of merit, show the validity of the proposed OTA, when compared with other OTA configurations.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.465-468
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• 1988

A n-well CMOS Operational Transconductance Amplifier -C(OTA-C) integrator with a wide linear input range is designed. The circuit designed has superior linearity of input voltage range compared with the conventional source-coupled pair OTA. The OTA developed in this paper is versatile in application: diverse applications are in the fields of linear amplifiers, continuous-time filters, gain control circuits, and analog multipliers, etc..

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2006

본 논문은 회로 구성 블록으로 CMOS 연산 트랜스컨덕턴스 증폭기(OTA)를 사용한 새로운 3.3-1 V 동기식 buck DC/DC 컨버터를 제안한다. PWM 회로의 오차 증폭기 OTA는 온도 안정성 향상을 위해 보상되었다. 보상된 OTA 트랜스컨덕턴스 이득의 온도 계수는 $0-100^{\circ}C$ 범위에서 $150\;ppm/^{\circ}C$ 이하이다. $0.35{\mu}m$ 표준 CMOS 공정으로 HSPICE 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과는 40-125 mA의 부하 전류 범위에서 제안된 컨버터의 효율이 80% 이상임을 보여준다. 이러한 결과는 제안된 컨버터가 전지로 동작되는 시스템에 이용하기에 적당함을 보여준다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2010

A fully-differential low-voltage low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) amplifier by using the nonfeedback PMOS pseudo-resistors is proposed. It consists of two operational-transconductance amplifiers (OTA) in series (a preamplifier and a variable-gain amplifier). To make it insensitive to the gate leakage current of the OTA input transistor, the feedback pseudo-resistor of the conventional ECG amplifier is moved to input branch between the OP amp summing node and the DC reference voltage. Also, an OTA circuit with a Gm boosting block without reducing the output resistance (Ro) is proposed to maximize the OTA DC gain. The measurements shows the frequency bandwidth from 7 Hz to 480 Hz, the midband gain programmable from 48.7 dB to 59.5 dB, the total harmonic distortion (THD) less than 1.21% with a full voltage swing, and the power consumption of 233 nW in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process at the supply voltage of 0.7 V.