A New Family of CMOS Cascode-Free Amplifiers with High Energy-Efficiency and Improved Gain

This book addresses the need for energy-efficient amplifiers, providing gain enhancement strategies, suitable to run in parallel with lower supply voltages, by introducing a new family of single-stage cascode-free amplifiers, with proper design, optimization, fabrication and experimental evaluation.  The authors describe several topologies, using the UMC 130 nm CMOS technology node with standard-VT devices, for proof-of-concept, achieving results far beyond what is achievable with a classic single-stage folded-cascode amplifier.  Readers will learn about a new family of circuits with a broad range of applications, together with the familiarization with a state-of-the-art electronic design automation methodology used to explore the design space of the proposed circuit family.

Ricardo F. S. P?voa is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Integrated Circuits Group, within the Instituto de Telecomunica??es, Lisboa, Portugal.
Jo?o C. da Palma Goes is a Professor at Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Nuno C. G. Horta is a Professor at Instituto Superior T?cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a Senior Researcher in the Integrated Circuits Group, within the Instituto de Telecomunica??es, Lisboa, Portugal.