Design of digital OTAs with operation down to 0.3 V and nW power for direct harvesting

P Toledo, P Crovetti, O Aiello… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, passive-less fully-digital operational transconductance amplifiers (DIGOTA) for
energy-and area-constrained systems are modeled and analyzed from a design viewpoint …

A 0.3-V high linear rail-to-rail bulk-driven OTA in 0.13 μm CMOS

T Kulej, F Khateb, D Arbet… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new solution for an ultra-low-voltage (ULV), linear operational transconductance amplifier
(OTA) is presented in this brief. The circuit is based on a non-tailed, classAB differential …

A novel differential to single-ended converter for ultra-low-voltage inverter-based OTAs

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the design of inverter-based OTAs with differential input and single-ended output, the
differential to single-ended (D2S) converter is a key building block. In fact, the performance …

A tree-based architecture for high-performance ultra-low-voltage amplifiers

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, P Monsurrò, G Scotti… - Journal of Low Power …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we introduce a novel tree-based architecture which allows the implementation
of Ultra-Low-Voltage (ULV) amplifiers. The architecture exploits a body-driven input stage to …

A novel standard-cell-based implementation of the digital OTA suitable for automatic place and route

G Palumbo, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel implementation of a digital-based Operational
Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) which has been recently introduced in the technical …

A differential-to-single-ended converter based on enhanced body-driven current mirrors targeting ultra-low-voltage OTAs

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti, P Tommasino… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) technique to improve body-driven current mirrors is
proposed. The proposed technique is employed to improve the performance of conventional …

A novel OTA architecture exploiting current gain stages to boost bandwidth and slew-rate

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, P Monsurrò, G Scotti… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A novel architecture and design approach which make it possible to boost the bandwidth
and slew-rate performance of operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) are proposed …

A Survey of Ultra-Low-Power Amplifiers for Internet of Things Nodes

AD Grasso, S Pennisi, C Venezia - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates CMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) design
methodologies suitable for Internet of Things nodes. The use of MOS transistors in the …

0.5 V CMOS inverter-based transconductance amplifier with quiescent current control

A Ballo, S Pennisi, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
A two-stage CMOS transconductance amplifier based on the inverter topology, suitable for
very low supply voltages and exhibiting rail-to-rail output capability is presented. The …

A high performance 0.3 V standard-cell-based OTA suitable for automatic layout flow

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose a novel standard-cell-based OTA architecture based on an
improved version of the differential to single-ended converter, previously proposed by the …