PENNISI , Salvatore

We present a low-voltage low-power CMOS tunable transconductor exploiting body gain boosting to increase the small-signal output resistance. As a distinctive feature, the proposed scheme allows the OTA transconductance to be tuned via the current biasing the gain-boosting circuit. The proposed transconductor has been designed in a 0.13-µm CMOS...

This study presents a low-voltage bulk-driven CMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) operating in the subthreshold region designed to drive loads up to 10 nF, which is the largest value for this class of amplifiers. To meet this goal, the solution exploits the body terminal of various active devices leveraging local positive feedback...