• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.2
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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.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.07a
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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.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.42 no.4
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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.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.185-188
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• 2001

This paper proposes an error amplifier circuit using OTA(Operational Transconductance Amplifier) which is the main constituent element in pulse width modulation circuit. The proposed OTA error amplifier circuit is featured by simple circuit configuration, excellent high frequency characteristics and bias current controlled output. Through the experiment of pulse width modulation circuit, the validity of the operation of the OTA error amplifier circuit is verified.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.6
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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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.259-261
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• 1999

An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based precision full-wave rectifier circuit is presented in this article. The proposed circuit has a very sharp corner in the DC transfer characteristic and simple configuration comprised three OTAs and one current mirror. The temperature dependence of the OTA transconductance is reduced. Experimental results demonstrating the characteristic of the circuit are included.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.12
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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.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.469-483
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• 1987

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.11
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• pp.83-91
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• 1990

VOC(coltage controlled oscillator) circuits are necessary in applications such at the demodul-ation of FM signals, frequency synthesizer, and for clock recovery from digital data. In this paper, we designed the VCO circuit based on a OTA(operational transconductance amplifier) and the OP amp which using a differential amplifier by BiCMOS circuit. It consists of a OTA, voltage contorolled integrator and a schmitt trigger. Conventional VCO circuits are designed using the CMOS circuit, but in this paper we designed newly BiCMOS VCO circuit which has a good drive avlity, As a result of SPICE simulation, output frequency is 141KHz at 105KHz, and sensitivity is 15KHz.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.122-128
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• 2007

Sinusoidal voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) based on Colpitts and Hartley oscillators are presented. They consist of a LC parallel-tuned circuit connected in a negative-feedback loop with an OTA-R amplifier and two diode limiters, where the inductor is simulated one realized with temperature-stable linear operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and a grounded capacitor. Prototype VCOs are built with discrete components. The Colpitts VCO exhibits less than 1% nonlinearity in its current-to-frequency transfer characteristic from 4.2 to 21.7 MHz and ${\pm}$95 ppm/$^{\circ}C$ temperature drift of frequency over 0 to $70^{\circ}C$. The total harmonic distortion (THD) is as low as 2.92% with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.7 V for a frequency-tuning range of 10.8-32 MHz. The Hartley VCO has the temperature drift and THD of two times higher than those of the Colpitts VCO.