A common current source, generally used to bias cross-coupled differential amplifiers in a transconductor, controls third harmonic distortion (HD3) poorly. Separate current sources are shown to provide better control ...A common current source, generally used to bias cross-coupled differential amplifiers in a transconductor, controls third harmonic distortion (HD3) poorly. Separate current sources are shown to provide better control on HD3) . In this paper, a detailed design and analysis is presented for a transconductor made using this biasing technique. The transconductor, in addition, is made to offer high Gm, low power dissipation and is designed for linearly tunable Gm with current mode load as one of the applications. The circuit exhibits HD3) of less than –43.7 dB, high current efficiency of 1.18 V-1 and Gm of 390 μS at 1 VGp-p @ 50 MHz. UMC 0.18 μm CMOS process technology is used for simulation at supply voltage of 1.8 V.展开更多
A low voltage,highly linear transconductance-C（G_m-C） low-pass filter for wireless local area network （WLAN） transceiver application is proposed.This transmitter（Tx） filter adopts a 9.8 MHz 3rd-order Chebyshev l...A low voltage,highly linear transconductance-C（G_m-C） low-pass filter for wireless local area network （WLAN） transceiver application is proposed.This transmitter（Tx） filter adopts a 9.8 MHz 3rd-order Chebyshev low pass prototype and achieves 35 dB stop-band attenuation at 30 MHz frequency.By utilizing pseudo-differential linear-region MOS transconductors,the filter IIP_3 is measured to be as high as 9.5 dBm.Fabricated in a 0.35μm standard CMOS technology,the proposed filter chip occupies a 0.41×0.17 mm^2 die area and consumes 3.36 mA from a 3.3-V power supply.展开更多
文摘A common current source, generally used to bias cross-coupled differential amplifiers in a transconductor, controls third harmonic distortion (HD3) poorly. Separate current sources are shown to provide better control on HD3) . In this paper, a detailed design and analysis is presented for a transconductor made using this biasing technique. The transconductor, in addition, is made to offer high Gm, low power dissipation and is designed for linearly tunable Gm with current mode load as one of the applications. The circuit exhibits HD3) of less than –43.7 dB, high current efficiency of 1.18 V-1 and Gm of 390 μS at 1 VGp-p @ 50 MHz. UMC 0.18 μm CMOS process technology is used for simulation at supply voltage of 1.8 V.
文摘A low voltage,highly linear transconductance-C（G_m-C） low-pass filter for wireless local area network （WLAN） transceiver application is proposed.This transmitter（Tx） filter adopts a 9.8 MHz 3rd-order Chebyshev low pass prototype and achieves 35 dB stop-band attenuation at 30 MHz frequency.By utilizing pseudo-differential linear-region MOS transconductors,the filter IIP_3 is measured to be as high as 9.5 dBm.Fabricated in a 0.35μm standard CMOS technology,the proposed filter chip occupies a 0.41×0.17 mm^2 die area and consumes 3.36 mA from a 3.3-V power supply.
