Showing 4 results for Current Mirror
H. Faraji Baghtash, S. J. Azhari, Kh. Monfaredi,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (12-2011)
Abstract
In this paper a novel very high performance current mirror is presented. It favorably benefits from such excellent parameters as: Ultra high output resistance (36.9GΩ), extremely low input resistance (0.0058Ω), low output (~0.18V) and low input voltage (~0.18V) operation, very low power consumption (20μW), very low offset current (1pA), ultra wide current dynamic range (150dB), and ultra high accuracy (error = 0.003%). The circuit has a very simple compact architecture and uses a single 1V power supply. The qualitative performance of the circuit is validated with HSPICE simulations using HSPICE TSMC 0.18μm CMOS technology.
T. Azadmousavi, H. Faraji Baghtash, E. Najafi Aghdam,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (6-2018)
Abstract
This work introduces a new and simple method for adjusting the gain of current mirror. The major advantage of the proposed architecture is that, unlike the conventional variable gain current mirror, it does not need the change of the biasing current to adjust current gain. Therefore, the power dissipation remains constant in all of the gain settings. In addition, the proposed variable gain current mirror have linear-in-dB gain control characteristic, simple structure, and small occupied area. The gain of the current mirror can be simply varied from 1.3dB to 21dB while the 3-dB bandwidth of the circuit remains around 12.3MHz or 33.6MHz at operation frequency range of 1.9MHz-14.2MHz and 6.6MHz-40.2MHz respectively. The proposed circuit draws negligible power of 6.9µW from 1.8V supply voltage. The simulation results of designed variable gain current mirror in 0.18μm standard CMOS technology confirms the effectiveness of the proposed circuit.
T. Azadmousavi, H. Faraji Baghtash, E. Najafi Aghdam,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (6-2019)
Abstract
A power efficient gain adjustment technique is described to realize programmable gain current mirror. The dissipation power changes over the wide gain range of structure are almost negligible. This property is in fact very interesting from power management perspective, especially in analog designs. The simple structure and constant frequency bandwidth are other ever-interesting merits of proposed structure. The programming gain range of structure is from zero up to 18dB under operating frequency range from 72 kHz to 173 MHz. The maximum power dissipation of designed circuit is only 3.1 µW which is drawn from 0.7 V supply voltage. Simulation results in 0.18 µm CMOS TSMC standard technology demonstrate the high performance of the proposed structure.
N. Raj,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (9-2021)
Abstract
The performance of any system is decided by the circuit configurations used in its implementation. Current mirror is one of those circuit configurations which are widely used in analog system designs. The performance of current mirror is decided by its parameters which include large operating range, wide bandwidth along with very low input and very high output resistances. In this paper, a low voltage flipped voltage follower based current mirror is presented. The structure flipped voltage follower is initially modified using a feedback path which results in the low impedance node which when considered as input in the proposed current mirror results in an extremely low value of input resistance. Compared to conventional flipped voltage follower based current mirror design the proposed design works well with minimum error in microamperes range with extended bandwidth without affecting its output resistance. The input resistance gets scaled down to 17 ohms from 840 ohms whereas bandwidth gets almost doubled approximately to 4.5GHz from 2.4GHz. The power dissipation ranges in microwatts. The simulations are supported with mathematical analysis. The complete analysis is done in HSpice using MOS models of 0.18-micron technology at a dual supply voltage, ±0.5V.
