REVIEW PAPER
International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Vol 2, No. 8, November 2009
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Design & Simulation Of High Gain Operational
Amplifier For 12 Bit Pipelined Analog To Digital
Converter Using Reduced Complexity Algorithm
Neeru Agarwal
1
, S. C. Bose
2
1
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India
2
CEERI (CSIO) Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Email: eng.neeru@gmail.com
Abstract---This paper describes the design and analysis of
High gain and widest bandwidth operational amplifier for
Analog to Digital conversion application. Different
Techniques are used to enhance the output characteristics
performance. These amplifiers demonstrate the highest
frequency and widest bandwidth of operation for amplifier
using reduced complexity algorithm. This paper presents
an improved circuit technique to improve the output
performance. In this algorithm we are using merely a single
operational amplifier for multiplication as well as
amplification which enhance the power consumption and
output characteristics without any degradation. Switched
Capacitor Operational amplifier technique is used to reduce
more power consumption. This Proposed work presents an
improved architecture with reduced circuit components and
complete circuit realization of its individual circuit blocks.
This work is an effort to apply circuit techniques to
implement a low cost, high-resolution A/D converter that
can be easily integrated with a standard CMOS technology.
This Proposed architecture is analyzed at 0.35μm
technology using Mentor Graphics at 3.3V power supply.
Advantages and disadvantages of the architecture are also
discussed. Good agreement between measured and
simulated results indicates the validity of our design
methodology.
Keyword-- power efficiency, residue voltage, operational
amplifier, CMOS technology
I.INTRODUCTION
Technology scaling is the main thrust behind the
advancement of CMOS technology. More and faster
transistors are crammed onto integrated circuits with each
new technology generation. The increased number of
transistors and the enhanced clock frequency lead to a
significant increase in the power consumption with each
new technology generation [2]. As ADCs are typically
power optimized for only a single operating speed, a
power scaleable ADC affords minimal power
consumption over a broad range of operating speeds in a
single circuit [4].
In this paper, we describe the analysis and design of
High gain and widest bandwidth operational amplifier. In
addition, a power-scaleable ADC is of great utility in
reducing design efforts as a single ADC can be targeted
for a variety of applications each with vastly different
performance requirements with respect to power and
speed.
Here we use the high gain and widest bandwidth
amplifier with improving simulation results that enhances
the performance of the proposed architecture. An
effective method is the operational amplifier sharing
technique which enhances the output performance. The
amplifier sharing between two successive pipelined
stages, not only can halve the power consumed by the
amplifiers, the die area can be also smaller.
Section II describes the proposed architecture and
details the CMOS implementation of its building blocks.
Experimental results are presented in Section III, and
Section IV concludes this paper.
II Operational amplifier using reduced Power
Consumption with Power-On/Off
An advantage of this operational amplifier which
rapidly and completely powers on and off is that it can be
speedily powered on only when needed, and powered off
when not required. The sample-and-hold circuits of this
work only have need of the opamp during the hold state,
hence, to further decrease power, the op amps are
powered off during the sampling phase of sample and
hold. To measure the amount of power reduction afforded
by powering off the opamps in the sampling phase, in the
ADC mode the op amps can be programmed to be
powered on or off through the sampling phase[4]. As
high-speed ADCs normally do not completely power off
the opamps in the sampling phase, by determining ADC
power with the op amps always on and always off in the
sampling phase, respectively, the power savings afforded
can be calculated.
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