Bias circuit design for low-voltage cascode transistors

Silveira, Fernando - Aguirre, Pablo

Resumen:

This article presents a design methodology for the most simple cascode transistor's bias circuit, i.e. a diode-connected transistor, valid from weak to strong inversion. By taking advantage of a compact MOS transistor model, we show how the circuit can be easily designed to precisely fix the drain voltage of the cascoded transistor just above its saturation voltage. Test circuits were manufactured in a 0.35μm CMOS technology in order to test the design methodology under different operation regions (weak, moderate and strong inversion) and for long and short channel transistors. Standard deviation in measured drain voltage of the cascoded transistor is below 3% of its mean.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2006
CMOS
Low voltage
Analog design
Electrónica
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/38709
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:Trabajo presentado en el 19th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2006. doi 10.1145/1150343.1150372