In this thesis, a first order low pass square root domain filter (SRD filter) based on the novel operational transconductor amplifiers (OTAs) is presented. The SRD filter consists of a translinear filter and two OTAs.
Because the conventional OTA has small input voltage swings, which violates the large signal operation of a SRD filter. We propose the novel OTA which is based on the large signal behaviors of MOSFETs, and the OTA also has large signal operation.
We improve Cruz¡¦s SRD filter [22], reduce the number of the transconductors from 3 to 2, and replace Class-AB linear transconductors with the proposed OTAs. The MOSFET count of whole circuit can be reduced.
Therefore, the OTAs have many advantages: wider input voltage swing, low supply voltage, low power consumption, and small chip area.
The circuit has been fabricated with 0.35£gm CMOS technology. It operates with a supply voltage 1.5V and the bias current varies from 0.3£gA to 15£gA. Measurement results show that the cutoff frequency can be tuned from 1.1kHz to 35.2kHz when the external capacitance C is 1nF and the cutoff frequency can be tuned from 8.7kHz to 310.4kHz when the external capacitance C is 100pF. The total harmonic distortions are 0.93% and 0.91% when the external capacitances C are 1nF and 100pF, and the power consumption is 152.29£gW.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0807108-174245 |
| Date | 07 August 2008 |
| Creators | Chang, Shih-Hao |
| Contributors | Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Ko-Chi Kuo, Chia-Hsiung Kao |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0807108-174245 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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