Classification and design space exploration of low-power three-stage operational transconductance amplifier architectures for wide load ranges

J Riad, JJ Estrada-López, E Sánchez-Sinencio - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) form the basic building blocks of
many analog systems, the compensation of three-stage OTAs has attracted a lot of attention …

A 0.016-mm 144-W Three-Stage Amplifier Capable of Driving 1-to-15 nF Capacitive Load With 0.95-MHz GBW

Z Yan, PI Mak, MK Law… - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.016-mm 2 144-μ W three-stage amplifier capable of driving 1-to-15-nF capacitive load
(CL) is described. It is optimized via combining current-buffer Miller compensation and …

Single Miller capacitor frequency compensation techniques: Theoretical comparison and critical review

AD Grasso, D Marano, G Palumbo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a systematic analytical comparison of the single‐Miller capacitor
frequency compensation techniques suitable for three‐stage complementary metal–oxide …

A cascode Miller-compensated three-stage amplifier with local impedance attenuation for optimized complex-pole control

M Tan, WH Ki - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a power-and area-efficient three-stage amplifier that is able to drive a
large capacitive load. Removing the inner Miller capacitor and employing cascode Miller …

Cross feedforward cascode compensation for low-power three-stage amplifier with large capacitive load

SS Chong, PK Chan - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An area-efficient cross feedforward cascode compensation (CFCC) technique is presented
for a three-stage amplifier. The proposed amplifier is capable of driving heavy capacitive …

[HTML][HTML] Fully active frequency compensation analysis on multi-stages CMOS amplifier

I Rezaei, AAM Khani, M Dadgar, M Attar - Memories-Materials, Devices …, 2023 - Elsevier
An enhanced three-stage CMOS transconductance amplifier attached to a novel frequency
compensation network is proposed. Two differential stages are attached with Miller …

Design methodology of subthreshold three-stage CMOS OTAs suitable for ultra-low-power low-area and high driving capability

AD Grasso, D Marano, G Palumbo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A design methodology for three-stage CMOS OTAs operating in the subthreshold region is
presented. The procedure is focused on the development of ultra-low-power amplifiers …

High-performance four-stage CMOS OTA suitable for large capacitive loads

AD Grasso, G Palumbo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing four-stage operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) is often considered a
challenging task mainly because of the required non trivial frequency compensation …

Design-oriented analysis for Miller compensation and its application to multistage amplifier design

W Qu, S Singh, Y Lee, YS Son… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A design-oriented analysis (DOA) method is presented, which lends sufficient insights into
various Miller compensation schemes. The method predicts the nondominant poles of the …

Nested-current-mirror rail-to-rail-output single-stage amplifier with enhancements of DC gain, GBW and slew rate

Z Yan, PI Mak, MK Law, RP Martins… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For better area and power efficiencies, rail-to-rail-output single-stage amplifiers are a
potential replacement of their multi-stage counterparts, especially for display applications …