Design of high-speed high-accuracy current copiers for low-voltage analog signal processing applications
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing
- Vol. 43 (12) , 836-839
- https://doi.org/10.1109/82.553400
Abstract
For high-accuracy current-mode circuits, their basic building blocks, current copiers, determine their speed and accuracy. A current copier suffers from two major error effects which are due to nonzero output conductance and clock feedthrough. This brief presents a simple current copier with a negative-feedback structure to alleviate the error due to nonzero output conductance, where the feedback amplifier is implemented by a bipolar inverter with high voltage gain and large bandwidth. This brief also presents the design constraints and trade-off for reducing the error due to the clock feedthrough. The PSPICE simulation results show that the copier achieves an accuracy of more than 10 b with a settling time within 6 ns for the input currents ranged from 0.5 to 3 mA, where a power supply of 3.3 V and a 2 μm BiCMOS process are assumed. Thus, this current copier is well suited to the high-accuracy high-speed and low-voltage analog signal processing applicationsKeywords
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