Linearity Improvement of Bulk Driven Floating Gate OTA Using Cross-Bulk and Quasi-Bulk Techniques

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150124
Author(s):  
Tanmay Dubey ◽  
Vijaya Bhadauria
Keyword(s):  
Input Signal ◽  
Cross Coupling ◽  
Monte Carlo Analysis ◽  
Floating Gate ◽  
Cmos Design ◽  
Linearity Improvement ◽  
Floating Gate Mosfets ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Linear Voltage ◽  
Linearization Techniques

In this paper, two highly linear OTAs are presented using a combination of three linearization techniques: floating gate, bulk driven, and source degeneration. In the first OTA, bulk driven floating gate MOSFETs are used as input transistors. The input signal given at the bulk terminals of these input transistors are in the opposite phase of the input signal provided to one of the gates of the respective floating gate MOSFET. This cross-coupling method resulted in a highly linear voltage-to-current conversion at the cost of reduced transconductance. In the second proposed OTA, this reduction in transconductance is restored by using novel quasi-bulk floating gate MOSFETs as input transistors while maintaining the improved linearity. Both the OTAs are designed and simulated using 180 nm CMOS design library and powered with [Formula: see text]0.5[Formula: see text]V dual power supply. The process variation and mismatch effects on both the OTAs are examined using corner and Monte Carlo analysis. The layouts of the proposed OTAs are also presented and workability is confirmed using post-layout simulations.

scholarly journals Analysis of Non-Idealities on CMOS Passive Mixers

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1105
Author(s):  
Antonio D. Martinez-Perez ◽  
Francisco Aznar ◽  
Guillermo Royo ◽  
Santiago Celma
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Monte Carlo Analysis ◽  
Image Rejection ◽  
Structure Approach ◽  
Quadrature Scheme ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Image Rejection Ratio ◽  
The Ideal

In the current state of the art, WiFi-alike standards require achieving a high Image Rejection Ratio (IRR) while having low power consumption. Thus, quadrature structures based on passive ring mixers offer an attractive and widely used solution, as they can achieve a high IRR while being a passive block. However, it is not easy for the designer to know when a simple quadrature scheme is enough and when they should aim for a double quadrature structure approach, as the latter can improve the performance at the cost of requiring more area and complexity. This study focuses on the IRR, which crucially depends on the symmetry between the I and Q branches. Non-idealities (component mismatches, parasitics, etc.) will degrade the ideal balance by affecting the mixer and/or following/previous stages. This paper analyses the effect of imbalances, providing the constraints for obtaining a 40 dB IRR in the case of a conversion from a one-hundred-megahertz signal to the five-gigahertz range (upconversion) and vice versa (downconversion) for simple and double quadrature schemes. All simulations were carried out with complete device models from 65 nm standard CMOS technology and also a post-layout Monte Carlo analysis was included for mismatch analysis. The final section includes guidelines to help designers choose the most adequate scheme for each case.

Subthreshold Behavior of Floating-Gate MOSFETs With Ferroelectric Capacitors

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 4641-4645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghua Han ◽  
Thomas C. U. Tromm ◽  
Michael Hoffmann ◽  
Paulus Aleksa ◽  
Uwe Schroeder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Floating Gate ◽  
Floating Gate Mosfets ◽  
Ferroelectric Capacitors

scholarly journals Control and flight test of a tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988141667814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Chen ◽  
Jiyang Zhang ◽  
Daibing Zhang ◽  
Lincheng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cross Coupling ◽  
Flight Test ◽  
Control Allocation ◽  
Tilt Rotor ◽  
Satisfactory Performance ◽  
Allocation Method ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
The Cost

Tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles have attracted increasing attention due to their ability to perform vertical take-off and landing and their high-speed cruising abilities, thereby presenting broad application prospects. Considering portability and applications in tasks characterized by constrained or small scope areas, this article presents a compact tricopter configuration tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle with full modes of flight from the rotor mode to the fixed-wing mode and vice versa. The unique multiple modes make the tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle a multi-input multi-output, non-affine, multi-channel cross coupling, and nonlinear system. Considering these characteristics, a control allocation method is designed to make the controller adaptive to the full modes of flight. To reduce the cost, the accurate dynamic model of the tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is not obtained, so a full-mode flight strategy is designed in view of this situation. An autonomous flight test was conducted, and the results indicate the satisfactory performance of the control allocation method and flight strategy.

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