{"title":"CMOS Low-Power Variable-Gain CMFB-Free Current Feedback Amplifier for Ultrasound Diagnostic Applications","authors":"Hio Leong Chao, D. Ma, M. Koen, P. Prazak","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2006.357942","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A CMOS current feedback amplifier (CFA) for ultrasound diagnostic applications is proposed. Unlike traditional CFAs, this design employs a new symmetrical and compact architecture, without the use of common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuitry. The design proposes an active feedback technique to drastically enhance the gain-bandwidth independence. It is also the first CFA to adopt Miller compensation for better frequency response with smaller compensation capacitor. The proposed CFA was fabricated and tested with a standard 0.35 mum CMOS process with competitive performance to its Bipolar and BiCMOS counterparts. The active die area is 0.052 mm2. Experiment results show that the CFA exhibits a minimum bandwidth of 4.5 MHz with a variable gain range of 0 to 46 dB, and a power dissipation of 2.18 mW.","PeriodicalId":142478,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2006.357942","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A CMOS current feedback amplifier (CFA) for ultrasound diagnostic applications is proposed. Unlike traditional CFAs, this design employs a new symmetrical and compact architecture, without the use of common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuitry. The design proposes an active feedback technique to drastically enhance the gain-bandwidth independence. It is also the first CFA to adopt Miller compensation for better frequency response with smaller compensation capacitor. The proposed CFA was fabricated and tested with a standard 0.35 mum CMOS process with competitive performance to its Bipolar and BiCMOS counterparts. The active die area is 0.052 mm2. Experiment results show that the CFA exhibits a minimum bandwidth of 4.5 MHz with a variable gain range of 0 to 46 dB, and a power dissipation of 2.18 mW.
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