A new high performance charge pump circuit is designed and realized in 0.18μm CMOS process. A wide input ranged rail-to-rail operational amplifier and self-biasing cascode current mirror are used to enable the charge...A new high performance charge pump circuit is designed and realized in 0.18μm CMOS process. A wide input ranged rail-to-rail operational amplifier and self-biasing cascode current mirror are used to enable the charge pump current to be well matched in a wide output voltage range.Furthermore,a method of adding a precharging current source is proposed to increase the initial charge current,which will speed up the settling time of CPPLLs.Test results show that the current mismatching can be less than 0.4%in the output voltage range of 0.4 to 1.7 V,with a charge pump current of 100μA and a precharging current of 70μA.The average power consumption of the charge pump in the locked condition is around 0.9 mW under a 1.8 V supply voltage.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2007AA01Z2A7)
文摘A new high performance charge pump circuit is designed and realized in 0.18μm CMOS process. A wide input ranged rail-to-rail operational amplifier and self-biasing cascode current mirror are used to enable the charge pump current to be well matched in a wide output voltage range.Furthermore,a method of adding a precharging current source is proposed to increase the initial charge current,which will speed up the settling time of CPPLLs.Test results show that the current mismatching can be less than 0.4%in the output voltage range of 0.4 to 1.7 V,with a charge pump current of 100μA and a precharging current of 70μA.The average power consumption of the charge pump in the locked condition is around 0.9 mW under a 1.8 V supply voltage.