CMOS Current Amplifiers: Speed versus Nonlinearity

by Kimmo Koli, Kari A.I. Halonen

CMOS Current Speed versus Nonlinearity is intended as a current-amplifier cookbook containing an extensive review of different current amplifier topologies realisable with modern CMOS integration technologies. The seldom-discussed issue of high-frequency distortion performance is derived for all reviewed amplifier topologies using as simple and intuitive mathematical methods as possible. The topologies discussed are also useful as building blocks for high-performance voltage-mode amplifiers. So the reader can apply the discussed techniques to both voltage- and current-mode analogue integrated circuit design.


This book contains application examples with experimental results in three different instrumentation amplifiers, continuous-time analogue filters and logarithmic amplifiers.

290 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 30, 2002