Fully balanced CMOS current-mode circuits

A fully balanced current-mode circuit topology has been developed for analog signal processing applications. The basic building block, a 5-V fully balanced current mirror/amplifier, has been fabricated using a standard 2- mu m n-well CMOS process. With a peak signal to bias current ratio i/I=0.5, the open-loop total harmonic distortion was-70 dB. With the addition of sampling switches, the current mirror/amplifier forms a fully balanced switched-current integrator that exhibits first-order cancellation of clock-feedthrough/charge-injection effects. Fully balanced SI ladder filters have been implemented using a 2- mu m p-well CMOS process. For a sampling frequency of 128 kHz, the five-pole Chebyshev low-pass ladder filters met design specifications of 0.1-dB passband ripple and 5-kHz bandwidth. The dynamic range was 81.5 dB, and the total power dissipation was 14 mW with V/sub dd/ 5 V.<
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