Classification and design space exploration of low-power three-stage operational transconductance amplifier architectures for wide load ranges

J Riad, JJ Estrada-López, E Sánchez-Sinencio - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) form the basic building blocks of
many analog systems, the compensation of three-stage OTAs has attracted a lot of attention …

A fast-transient capacitorless LDO with dual paths active-frequency compensation scheme

X Ming, JJ Kuang, X Gong, Z Lin… - … on Power Electronics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an area-efficient and fast-transient capless low-dropout regulator (LDO)
with satisfactory static and dynamic performance in the full load current range. Active …

A cascode Miller-compensated three-stage amplifier with local impedance attenuation for optimized complex-pole control

M Tan, WH Ki - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a power-and area-efficient three-stage amplifier that is able to drive a
large capacitive load. Removing the inner Miller capacitor and employing cascode Miller …

Design-oriented analysis for Miller compensation and its application to multistage amplifier design

W Qu, S Singh, Y Lee, YS Son… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A design-oriented analysis (DOA) method is presented, which lends sufficient insights into
various Miller compensation schemes. The method predicts the nondominant poles of the …

Nested-current-mirror rail-to-rail-output single-stage amplifier with enhancements of DC gain, GBW and slew rate

Z Yan, PI Mak, MK Law, RP Martins… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For better area and power efficiencies, rail-to-rail-output single-stage amplifiers are a
potential replacement of their multi-stage counterparts, especially for display applications …

Optimized active single-Miller capacitor compensation with inner half-feedforward stage for very high-load three-stage OTAs

D Marano, AD Grasso, G Palumbo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new effective single-Miller capacitor compensation topology for
three-stage amplifiers with very large capacitive loads, realized through an active-feedback …

Toward automated reasoning for analog IC design by symbolic computation–A survey

G Shi - Integration, 2018 - Elsevier
Analog integrated circuit (IC) design highly depends on reasoning, which distinguishes itself
from other areas of IC design. Most of its innovation arises from qualitative reasoning by a …

High-Performance Three-Stage Single-Miller CMOS OTA With No Upper Limit of

AD Grasso, D Marano, G Palumbo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a low-power, area-efficient three-stage CMOS operational
transconductance amplifier (OTA) suitable for very large capacitive loads, C L. A single …

Slew-rate booster and frequency compensation circuit for automotive LDOs

C Răducan, M Neag - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a slew-rate booster and frequency compensation circuit for automotive
LDOs. The proposed circuit addresses three major LDO design challenges: frequency …

A high‐performance CMOS four‐stage amplifier

M Soltani Zanjani, T Asiyabi… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we theoretically propose and mathematically describe an effective four‐stage
structure in Complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology based on …